South Village Historic District

The story

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The South Village Historic District is a historic district in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, roughly along Bedford, Carmine, Downing, Grand, Jones, Leroy, MacDougal, Prince, West 3rd, and West Houston Streets and LaGuardia Place, in New York County, and it was listed in the National Register in 2014. It covers 74.88 acres and includes row houses and tenements in styles ranging from Greek Revival and Italianate to Beaux-Arts and Art Deco.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, commerce, and European ethnic heritage. The nomination gives its period of significance as about 1820 to 1965, reflecting row houses built as early as 1828.

Physical character

Many row houses stand on stone or brick foundations with high stoops behind wrought-iron railings and pressed-metal cornices. Some buildings were raised to four stories with new pressed-metal cornices about 1868 and in 1870, and many stoops were removed in 1924 and 1925. Ground-floor stores were converted to residential use in 1939 and 1940, and studio windows were cut into upper floors between 1917 and 1924.

Historical context

Frederick Youmans built a house in 1816-1817 and sold it to David Bogart, and row houses were converted into tenements in the 1850s. In the 1920s, Italian residents moved out as middle-class professionals moved in, and 129 housed both Eve Addams' early lesbian tearoom from 1925 to 1926 and photographer Nickolas Muray's studio salon.