9 Cornelia Street

also 7 Cornelia Street | West Village | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
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. 1873

    The 1873 tenement at 9 Cornelia Street is built for 16 families with two ground-floor stores

    George Reichardt had architect William Graul design the building at 9 Cornelia Street in 1873 as the companion to its neighbor at no. 7. It was planned for 16 families, with two stores on the ground floor. Reichardt owned the property until 1881, when Anna Katharina Brummer took it over.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1944

    Architect M. Milton Glass merges the tenements at 7 and 9 Cornelia Street into one apartment house

    In 1944 architect M. Milton Glass merged the two separate tenements at 7 and 9 Cornelia Street into one apartment building behind a single unified facade, working for the 1599 West 10th Street Corporation. The blue-tiled entrance vestibule may date from that work. A later alteration, filed in 2007, reconfigured the ground floor into two apartments and two stores.

    “…combined the two buildings into a single residential building with unified facade…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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