20 West 8th St. shown in tax photo of 20- 22 West 8th St, taken 1939-41
Photo courtesy of NYC Municipal Archives, NY Dept. of Records via Sarah Appman at Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation.
The building on the far left is 18 West 8th street. Four houses, no.s 16, 18, 20 and 22 were built in 1838 for Hardware man Henry H. Elliott and were replaced in 1967 with five one-story stores whose leaded dormers suggest an Elizabethan English origin.