William J. Glackens House

10 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1841

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

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1868
Civil War general Irvin McDowell buys the West 9th Street house
General Irvin McDowell, who commanded the Army of Northeastern Virginia in its 1861 defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, bought the house with his wife Helen Borden. He was promoted to major general in November 1872 and in December was named commander of the Military Division of the South. He kept ownership but never returned to the house, leasing it to other families until his death in 1885.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1919
Painters William and Edith Glackens buy the house
Ashcan School painter William Glackens, one of the group of artists known as The Eight, and his wife Edith Dimock purchased the townhouse in 1919. The couple raised their two children, Lenna and Ira, in the house, which became a gathering place for fellow artists.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1922
The Glackenses add a mansard studio to the top floor
William and Edith Glackens spent a year renovating the house, raising the third floor to full height and adding a copper-sheathed mansard with a large studio window on the new fourth floor. Fellow painter Jerome Myers recalled the studio's gatherings of friends in his 1940 memoir, Artist in Manhattan. Glackens died of a heart attack in 1938 while visiting friends in Connecticut.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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