Lewis I. Cohen House

11 East 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1838

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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. 1849

    Lewis I. Cohen, a pioneer of American pencil-making, moves in

    Lewis I. Cohen, principal of a firm importing French and English stationery, moved into this Greek Revival row house around 1849, eight years after it was built. His firm also made playing, business, and calling cards, and it was the first American maker of lead pencils, and it brought steel pens to the United States market. When Cohen died in 1860, the business was renamed Lawrence & Cohen.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1897

    March 16

    Banker John Kennedy Tod hosts a sixteen-guest dinner party

    Scottish-born banker John Kennedy Tod, a nationally recognized rugby player before he emigrated, and his wife Mary Howard Potter leased the house, and their entertaining often put them in society columns. The New York Times reported on March 17, 1897 that the couple had given a dinner party at the house the evening before, with places set for sixteen. The Tods also kept a country estate, Innis Arden, in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1925

    November 30

    Judge Julius Mayer dies suddenly in the house

    Julius Marschuetz Mayer, a senior member of the law firm Mayer, Warfield & Watson and a federal judge, lived in the house alongside his sister Ethel and her husband, Charles G. Bourne. He caught a cold in mid-November 1925 and on November 30 said at dinner that he felt unwell and went to his bedroom, where the butler found him dying. His death was attributed to a heart attack. The funeral the next day was held at the house, and the crowd of more than 400 grew so large that no more people were admitted.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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