98 Greenwich Avenue

West Village | built 1837

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1837
Builder Aaron Marsh and mason Henry Perine finish a row of three houses at 96-100 Greenwich Avenue
In 1836-37 Aaron Marsh, a builder working near West Fourth Street, and Henry M. Perine, a mason from Carmine Street, put up three houses in a row here. They had just finished a finer row at 301-317 West Fourth Street, and they financed this one with purchase-money mortgages from the landowner, Jacob B. Taylor. Marsh and Perine were taxed for Nos. 96 and 98, and the carpenter Daniel H. Weed for No. 100.
“These three houses were erected in 1836-37 as a row by Aaron Marsh, a builder at Fourth Street near Eighth Avenue, and Henry M. Perine, a mason…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1837
Number 98 is the middle house of a modest Federal-style row of three
The three matching houses of 1837 were not meant for the upper-middle class, unlike the same builders' West Fourth Street row. They were modest brick buildings of two and a half stories with dormers, brownstone sills and lintels, and shallow stoops of three steps. The builders chose cheaper American-bond brickwork over the Flemish bond used in costlier houses. A full third floor was added later.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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