209 West 16th Street

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3-story (plus raised basement) Italianate/Greek-revival townhouse building completed in 1829. Three bays wide, it is clad in red brick above a rusticated brownstone basement. There are wrought-iron railings on the stoop and around the areaway. The windows have black-painted stone sills and metal cornices, with black exterior wooden shutters. The facade is crowned by a black roof cornice with four large brackets, modillions and paneling.

By 1845 the house was home to Henry Sutcliff, a carpenter, and his family. Sutcliff ran his carpentry business from the rear shop and another carpenter, presumably an employee, William G. Diehl, lived above it. Although the Sutliffs remained in the house through 1854, by then Henry had given his carpentry shop over to a bakery. Following the Sutliffs, the house became home to another carpenter, William Leaycraft. Around 1874 Michael McMullen, a roofer, purchased the house, and sold it in 1886 to James and Catherine Maher Gregg. It was almost assuredly the Greggs who updated the stoop newels and added cast metal cornices to the windows. The house continues to serves as a single-family residence today.

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