99 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1891
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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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- 1853
John Brown builds a house on this lot around 1853, before the present tenement
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's survey says the original house on this lot was built around 1853 by John Brown. Charles Ruff bought the lot in 1890 and put up the present five-story tenement in its place the next year.
“The original house on this lot was constructed c. 1853 by John Brown.”
- 1891
Charles Ruff builds Queen Anne tenements at Nos. 97 1/2 and 99, designed by Schneider & Herter
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Charles Ruff bought this lot in 1890 and had architects Schneider & Herter build this tenement and its neighbor at 97 1/2 East 7th Street. The five-story building has an arched entrance porch on columns, a bracketed iron cornice and stained-glass transoms in its first-story windows. An alteration in 1908 enlarged the basement windows.
Further reading
- 99 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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