13 First Avenue; 72 East 1st Street | Block : 443 | Lot #39

Description & Building Alterations

This five-story brick tenement building, along with the building on lot 40, appears to have been built in a neo-Grec, Italianate Revival style. A building existed on the combined lots 39 & 40 prior to 1837, and another building was added to the lot in 1863, when the site was owned by George Neander. The buildings were likely a tenement and a store. Tax records indicate that since 1878 there has been only one building on the lot. Originally three stories, it was raised to five stories in 1879.

The building features window lintels with pedimented second floor windows and bracketed sills. The windows and entrances on the ground floor are pedimented as well. The historic cornice was removed prior to the 1980s, though it is visible in the 1934 New York Public Library image listed at the sidebar. The second rightmost bay on the south facade has been filled in with brick.