262 East 7th Street | Block : 376 | Lot #23

Description & Building Alterations

Tax records indicate that this three story Greek Revival row house, along with several others on the block, were constructed between 1842 and 1843. No. 262 features a double door entryway recessed behind molded pilasters. The windows of this three bay wide row house feature bracketed projecting sills and molded lintels with dentils. The building also showcases iron railings with swirling horizontal volutes at the top of the stoop, descending to vertical volutes at sidewalk level. The simple brick facade has been painted.

During the mid-19th century, this house was part of a row of adjacent houses known as the Dry Dock District and later the Political Row: the block of Seventh Street between Avenue C and Avenue D where many of the Eleventh Ward’s political figures lived. This area was therefore linked to the early development of New York’s waterfront. By the turn of the 20th century, the erosion of the Political Row was underway as many of its original occupants moved away due to the onslaught of tenement construction.