102 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1839

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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. 1839

    A two-story brick house goes up as the first dwelling on its block

    Tax records show a house built in 1839 at what was then 178 Tenth Street, on land held by Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and his sister. Thomas Macfarlan, Stuyvesant's real estate manager, was assessed $400 more that year, and the two-story house was the first dwelling on the block. It was faced in red brick with brownstone trim and likely mixed Federal and Greek Revival details.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1879

    Rutherford Stuyvesant enlarges the house into a boarding house

    Rutherford Stuyvesant, who inherited the property from his great-uncle, hires Peter T. O'Brien & Sons in 1879 to alter and enlarge the house, at a cost of $1,000. The work adds sheet-metal cornices over the openings and a neo-Grec cornice. The house then becomes a boarding house, with a schoolteacher and a theatrical manager among its 1884 residents.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1966

    A new owner restores the house to single-family use

    After decades as a boarding house, 102 East 10th Street is bought in 1966 and renovated as a single-family home. The most striking change is a new entrance modeled on a Greek Revival doorway, with fluted Ionic pilasters holding up a blank frieze and a transom. It is the oldest house on its block and is still a private home.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1984

    The house is designated part of the St. Mark's Historic District Extension

    In 1984 this house and its neighbor at 104 East 10th Street are designated as the St. Mark's Historic District Extension. Village Preservation says the designation rested mainly on the aesthetic influence the pair had on how the rest of the block developed.

    Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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