9 Gay Street
West Village | built 1899
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1860
Thomas Cumming builds Nos. 9 and 11 Gay Street for a grocer as copies of his own 1844 row
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In 1860 the paving contractor Thomas Cumming built this house and No. 11 for Henry Luhrs, a grocer from nearby Waverly Place, to replace stables. They were deliberate replicas of the Greek Revival houses at Nos. 13-17 that Cumming had put up sixteen years earlier. Cast-iron newel posts on stone bases, paneled at No. 9, still mark the stoops.
“These houses, erected in 1860, for Henry Luhrs by Thomas Cumming to replace stables, duplicate the neighboring houses (Nos. 13-17)…”
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- Then & Now photos: 9 Gay StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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