93 Barrow Street

also 463 Hudson Street | West Village | built 1829

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

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1829
Dry-goods merchant Gilbert Chichester builds a small house on Barrow Street behind his Hudson Street corner house
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In 1828-29 Gilbert Chichester, a dry goods merchant, had a small two-story brick house built at what is now 93 Barrow Street. It was a rear extension of No. 463 Hudson Street, his corner house, which was put up at the same time. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the Barrow Street house as an appendage built with the Hudson Street house, not as a separate dwelling.
“…erected in 1828-29 for Gilbert Chichester, a dry goods merchant, as a rear extension to No. 463 Hudson Street, built at the same time.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1851
The Barrow Street extension gets a Greek Revival front to match its neighbors, probably in 1851
The front of No. 93 Barrow Street dates probably from 1851, a time when Jeremiah Lambert owned the property. Lambert had put up the neighboring houses at Nos. 95 and 97 a few years earlier. The facade was made to match them, down to Greek Revival stoop and areaway railings identical to theirs.
“The present facade was probably added in 1851, when the property was owned by Jeremiah Lambert ... The facade of No. 93 conforms with them…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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