104 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1879

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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. 1879

    Rutherford Stuyvesant replaces an old real estate office with a new rowhouse

    Rutherford Stuyvesant replaces the two-story office building that stood here since the 1840s with a three-story brick house, quite likely designed by Peter T. O'Brien & Sons, who were remodeling No. 102 next door for him. The red-brick house on a brownstone basement mixes Italianate and neo-Grec styles, with molded lintels and stoop ironwork on one side and angular cornice brackets on the other. Its first occupants rent out their spare rooms.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1893

    Dr. Franklin Lawson of this house writes the governor on behalf of Carlyle Harris

    Dr. Franklin D. Lawson, a Columbia-trained physician who lives here, writes Governor Roswell Flower in 1893 to oppose the death sentence of Carlyle Harris, his former classmate. Speaking as a doctor, he argues the medical experts would not have convicted Harris on the trial testimony. The effort fails and Harris is electrocuted in May. Lawson then studies singing in Paris and joins the Metropolitan Opera in 1902.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 2008

    Edgar Oliver premieres a solo play about the tenement where he has lived

    Playwright and performer Edgar Oliver writes and performs East 10th Street: Self Portrait with Empty House at Axis Company in November 2008, directed by Randy Sharp. The show leads the audience through the strange rooms and eccentric residents of the East Village tenement building where he has lived since his early years in New York. It ends at his own room at the top of the stairs. Village Preservation records that he lived at 104 East 10th Street.

    Source: axiscompany.org

  4. 2016

    Michael K. Chen leads a restoration to single-family use

    Architect Michael K. Chen, working with preservationist Katherine Redd, begins a 2016 restoration of 104 East 10th Street as a single-family home. The facade is cleaned and repaired and its ironwork restored. In the later twentieth century the brick had been painted beige and the brownstone white.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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