108 Waverly Place
Greenwich Village | built 1826
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1826
Thomas Mercein commissions a row of nine Federal houses on Waverly Place
Thomas R. Mercein, who heads the New York Equitable Fire Insurance Company, commissions nine speculative rowhouses on Waverly Place in 1826. No. 108 is a three-story brick house with a dormered attic and paneled lintels. Dry-goods merchant Frederick Henry Wolcott lives there in the 1840s and announces his retirement in December 1851, soon afterward moving his family to Long Island.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1952
Marshall Stearns founds the Institute of Jazz Studies in the house
Marshall Winslow Stearns, a Hunter College professor of medieval English and a jazz historian, founds the Institute of Jazz Studies at No. 108 in 1952. The institute keeps more than 12,000 recordings along with photographs and other memorabilia, and Stearns hosts jazz parties at the house. In September 1966 he announces that Rutgers University has acquired the collection, and he dies two months later.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Unique Stone House at No. 108 Waverly PlaceDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 108 Waverly PlaceVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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