105 MacDougal Street

also 13 Minetta Street | Greenwich Village | built 1902

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

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1945
The painter Bridget Bate Tichenor and her husband move into an artist's studio here
After marrying Jonathan Tichenor in 1945, the artist Bridget Bate, who had modeled for Chanel in Paris and later worked as a Vogue editor, moved with him into a studio at 105 MacDougal Street. She divorced him and moved to Mexico in 1953, where she became a magic realist painter among a circle of expatriate women artists that included Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.
Source: Wikipedia
1962
The café becomes the Fat Black Pussy Cat after adding a theater
In 1962 the café that had opened in 1958 as The Commons on Minetta Street was enlarged with a theater and became the Fat Black Pussy Cat. This tenement and its twin at 103 shared the venue. Performers there included Tiny Tim, Mama Cass Elliot, Richie Havens and Bill Cosby; since 1972 the space has housed a Mexican restaurant, Panchito's.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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