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Owner proposes new front area way treatment and small rooftop addition at 80 Washington Place; committee raises questions on lanterns and fence height
Summary
Preservation consultants presented plans for a new cast-stone-and-iron fence, bluestone area-way paving, and a mostly open-air rooftop addition at 80 Washington Place. Committee members questioned the proposed eight-inch increase in fence height and the use of gas lanterns in the area way.
Historic-preservation consultants and architects presented a proposal for 80 Washington Place in the Greenwich Village Historic District, proposing to replace a nonhistoric fence and area-way paving, install cast-stone piers with gas lanterns, and construct a mostly open-air rooftop addition with a small enclosed bathroom volume at the rear.
Sarah Scherr (historic-preservation consultant) described the building’s history: originally built in 1839 and renovated in 1920 into a “reborn” row-house typology. The applicants proposed to remove a 2009 nonhistoric fence and replace it with a…
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