98 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1872
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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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- 1872
Henry Klenke buys the lot from Margaret Duffy and replaces the old building with a Graul tenement
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In 1872 Henry Klenke bought this lot, with a building already on it, from Margaret Duffy. He then had architect William Graul design the present five-story neo-Grec tenement, which was built using the side walls of the earlier structure. The facade keeps a bracketed stone pediment over the door, a historic fire escape and an iron cornice.
“Henry Klenke purchased this lot with its existing building from Margaret Duffy in 1872 (Liber 1208, page 596). The current building used side walls of the previous building…”
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- 98 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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