100 Greenwich Avenue

West Village | built 1837

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1842

    Schoolteacher Mary Tate lives at 100 Greenwich Avenue for three decades and rises to principal

    Mary E. Tate is recorded here by 1842 and stayed at least thirty years, apparently renting out a room. She taught at Grammar School No. 45 on West 24th Street, never married, and became its principal. On February 18, 1889 the New-York Tribune called her one of the best-known teachers in the city and said her school had ranked among the best for more than two years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1938

    The Greenwich Village Humane League sets up headquarters at 100 Greenwich Avenue

    Alice Manchester founded the league in 1938 to advise pet owners, find homes for strays and publicize threatened animals, and it used the old house as its base. On September 23, 1941 it gave recognition to two dozen schoolchildren for essays about mongrel dogs they had rescued, and on that year's Cat Day a radio singer awarded medals for letters to its mascot, Orphan Annie. The league moved out on December 11, 1942.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 2005

    Actress Milla Jovovich buys the house at 100 Greenwich Avenue for $6.38 million

    After decades as a cooking-school address and small apartments, the house was turned back into a single-family home in 2003. Two years later the actress Milla Jovovich, star of The Fifth Element, bought it. She listed it in 2008 and sold it in January 2013 to Imax chief executive Rich Gelfond, after the singer Courtney Love had failed in an attempt to rent it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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