88 West Houston Street

also 490 LaGuardia Place, 494 LaGuardia Place | Greenwich Village | built 1870

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

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1828
A Federal-style row house stands here from about 1828 as one of a group of four, until the 1870 rebuilding
Around 1828 a Federal-style row house was built at this corner of West Houston Street, one of four in a group running from number 88 to 94. In 1870 it was replaced by the present four-story Italianate tenement with a commercial ground floor, designed by James L. Miller for owner Lytle W. Johnson. The new brick building has molded window lintels and a bracketed cornice with dentils.
“Replaced a Federal-style row house built c. 1828 as part of a group of four at 88 to 94 West Houston Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
Widening of Laurens Street leads to a new tenement being designed by James L. Miller at 88 West Houston
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In 1870 Laurens Street was widened by 25 feet on its west side and renamed South Fifth Avenue, and buildings along it were torn down or cut back to the new curb line. Many of the shortened lots were quickly rebuilt as tenements. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists 88 West Houston Street among those put up that year under a new-building permit, to designs by James L. Miller.
“Some were constructed under New Building permits, such as 88 West Houston Street (1870, designed by James L. Miller)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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