82 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1892

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About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1892

    Frank and Jacob Weinheimer build a narrow five-story apartment house at 82 Christopher Street

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    Frank and Jacob Weinheimer put up this four-window-wide apartment house in 1892. Its fifth-floor windows are round-arched, with terra cotta frames above the central pair and decorated spandrel panels beside them. The cornice was later replaced by a stuccoed parapet, and the ground floor was rebuilt in brick in the twentieth century to hold a store and a side door to the upper floors.

    “It was built in 1892 for Frank and Jacob Weinheimer. ... The first floor was remodeled in the Twentieth Century in brick to provide a store and side entrance…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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