623 East 6th Street | Block : 389 | Lot #49

Description & Building Alterations

The building on Lot 49 was constructed as part of a row of seven tenement houses in 1877. The buildings were owned by prominent brewer and large real-estate owner David Jones, who constructed them following a fire that destroyed his brewery on the same property two years earlier. This Italianate-style building is five stories in height with a rusticated, stone clad first floor with three bays. The entry is centered and all three openings are arched with radiating voussoirs. The upper stories are four bays and the windows have identical ornamental sills and curved lintels. The metal cornice features dentils, modillions and raised panels at the frieze between the heavily articulated brackets. The non-commercial ground floor displays rusticated stonework.

The row of tenements has undergone numerous changes over the years, but the tenement at 623 East 6^th Street seems to have retained a large amount of historic detail. The ground floor has hardly changed since the 1940s tax photograph was taken. Unlike its neighboring buildings, there is no record of it ever having a storefront or retail space.