Thomas Egleston House

10 5th Avenue | also 1 West 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1849

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1849
Henry Brevoort's Gothic Revival row rises on lower Fifth Avenue
Henry Brevoort began building four Gothic Revival brownstone houses at Nos. 10-16 Fifth Avenue in 1848, with crenelated rooflines, quatrefoil panels, and square-headed eyebrows over the windows. Iron merchant Thomas Egleston bought the corner house, No. 10, while it was still under construction. He moved in with his wife and 17-year-old son when it was finished in 1849.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1864
November 16
Thomas Egleston Jr. launches Columbia's School of Mines
Thomas Egleston Jr., who lived in the Fifth Avenue house, studied metallurgy in Paris and published a plan for an American school of mines in 1863. The New York Times reported the opening of Columbia College's School of Mines on November 16, 1864, calling it believed to be the first such institution in the United States. Twenty-four students showed up on the first day, double the number the school could comfortably take.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1930
Shops are added at street level with a Gothic-style doorway
The high stoop and parlor entrance were removed sometime after 1900. By 1917 a school occupied the upper floors while the Diamond Disc Shop sold Edison phonographs at street level, and in 1919 the upper floors became bachelor apartments. In 1930 shops were added at street level, with a Gothic-style doorway to the upper floors and an applied bandcourse that imitated the original label moldings.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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