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Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street
26, 28, and 30 Jones Street is located in New York
26, 28, and 30 Jones Street
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Location26, 28 and 30 Jones St., New York, New York
Coordinates40°43′54″N 74°00′11″W / 40.7316°N 74.0030°W / 40.7316; -74.0030 (Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones Street)
Arealess than one acre
Built1844 (1844)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
Part ofSouth Village Historic District (ID14000026)
NRHP reference No.82003379[1]
NYSRHP No.06101.000110, 06101.000029, 06101.000392
NYCL No.0208, 0209, 0210
Significant dates
Added to NRHP1982-06-03
Designated NYSRHP1982-08-23[2]
Designated NYCL1966-04-19

26, 28, and 30 Jones Street are three historic Greek Revival-style rowhouses on Jones Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US.[3][4] Built c. 1844, the rowhouses each have brick facades with three stories above a raised basement. Each building has a stoop with a wrought-iron railings, and a cornice with dentils. The designs are attributed to Henry Hoople Mott. The buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places and are designated as New York City Landmarks.

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The houses at 26, 28, and 30 Jones Street are located on Jones Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US.[3][4] The three rowhouses are in the Greek Revival style.[5][6] They are among the few remaining buildings of their type on Jones Street.[5] The original buildings' architects and builders have not been determined,[7] although the AIA Guide to New York City attributes the design for all three houses to Henry Hoople Mott.[6] The houses are next to 32 Jones Street,[8] which once housed Caffe Vivaldi.[9]

Each building is three stories high above a raised basement. The facades are made of red brick, while the entry stoops, basements, and window trimmings are made of brownstone.[10][11] All three buildings are divided vertically into three bays, each with a wooden sash window.[12] The stoops are in the leftmost bay of each house and all have wrought-iron railings.[11] The National Park Service's 1982 report about the buildings indicated that 26 Jones Street had a stucco frame and a replica handrail.[10]

The tops of the stoops originally had a single door recessed between a pair of pilasters and are surrounded by sidelights next to it and transom windows above. The original door at number 30 has been replaced with double doors.[10] The space above the transom window of each doorway has an entablature.[11] Above the topmost story, each building also has a cornice with dentils.[10][4][11] There are party walls subdividing the three houses.[10]

History

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The houses at 26, 28, and 30 Jones Street date from around 1844[5][7] and, according to tax records, were originally respectively owned by Jane S. Paradise, Dorothy Peterson, and John Moore.[7] According to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), numbers 28 and 30 were both constructed in that year.[13] Number 26 was constructed starting in 1843 and was still not complete in 1844, when the trustee for Paradise's estate, Jesse W. Benedict, took over.[14] All three buildings changed ownership multiple times in the 19th century. The first ownership transfers for any of these buildings took place in 1848, when Abraham Bassford bought number 26 and William Waring bought number 30. The other house, number 28, remained in the same ownership until 1855, when Richard Yerance took over. 26 and 28 Jones Street remained single-family housing when Greenwich Village residents began moving northward in the 1850s, while 30 Jones Street was subdivided into multiple units at that time.[12]

In 1902, the Greenwich House settlement house was founded at 26 Jones Street,[15][16] due to the area's proximity to the relatively poor Little Italy enclave.[17] Initially, number 26 was occupied by Greenwich House's founder Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, along with her family and five employees.[14] In 1905, Greenwich House was obtained by the Greenwich House's parent organization, the Cooperative Social Settlement Society.[18] Greenwich House Cooperative Apartments Inc. obtained 26 and 28 Jones Street in 1921.[19] The same company bought 30 Jones Street in 1929 as an extension to the neighboring properties.[20][21]

The houses were depicted on the cover of Bob Dylan's 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.[4] One of the buildings' residents in the late 20th century was Irma Simonton Black, an author who was found murdered there in 1972.[22] The buildings were designated as New York City Landmarks in 1966[23] and added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.[24] The houses also became part of the city-designated Greenwich Village Historic District in 2010,[4] and they were added to the NRHP-designated South Village Historic District in 2014.[2]

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References

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  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. November 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
  3. 1 2 National Park Service 1982, pp. 2–3.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Gregoire, Chloe (March 17, 2025). "Jones Street: Album Cover Inspiration to Individual Landmark Designations". Village Preservation – Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Retrieved March 18, 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 National Park Service 1982, p. 3.
  6. 1 2 White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
  7. 1 2 3 Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, pp. 219, 221–222.
  8. ↑ Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, p. 223.
  9. ↑ Upadhyaya, Kayla Kumari (June 7, 2018). "West Village Jazz Restaurant Caffe Vivaldi Will Close After 35 Years". Eater NY. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 National Park Service 1982, p. 2.
  11. 1 2 3 4 30 Jones Street House (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. April 19, 1966. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
    28 Jones Street House (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. April 19, 1966. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
    26 Jones Street House (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. April 19, 1966. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
  12. 1 2 Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, pp. 220–222.
  13. ↑ Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, pp. 221–222.
  14. 1 2 Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, p. 219.
  15. ↑ "At Greenwich House: The New Co-operative Settlement and Its Work on Home Lines Object to Being "Reformed." Social Work in Homes". New-York Tribune. December 4, 1902. p. 7. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 571278034.
  16. ↑ Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, p. 9.
  17. ↑ "Wealthy Men Choose Home Among the Poor; Five Volunteers to Teach "The Other Half" How to Live. Bankers, Brokers, and Lawyers Move Into Lower West Side to Assist in the Work at Greenwich House". The New York Times. August 16, 1903. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 21, 2026.
  18. ↑ Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, p. 221.
  19. ↑ Klose, Kurshan & Percival 2010, pp. 220–221.
  20. ↑ "Other Manhattan Sales; Deals in Business and Other Parcels Reported Yesterday". The New York Times. April 28, 1929. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 22, 2026.
  21. ↑ "Apartments Are Pushing Trade Out of Jones St.: Five Houses in This Street Have Been Claimed for Homes". New York Herald Tribune. April 28, 1929. p. D2. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1111971053.
  22. ↑ "Children's‐Book Writer Is Slain In Landmark House in 'Village'". The New York Times. June 19, 1972. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
  23. ↑ "26, 28, 30 Jones Street Houses". Historic Districts Council. June 21, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2026.
  24. ↑ "Federal Register: 48 Fed. Reg. 8425 (Mar. 1, 1983)" (PDF). Library of Congress. March 1, 1983. p. 8653 (PDF p. 237). Archived (PDF) from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2020.

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