P. A. Fogarty Stable

11 Spring Street | also 184 Elizabeth Street | Nolita | built 1900

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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. 1895

    August

    The Fogarty estate replaces Koop's Hotel with a stable and apartment building

    The estate of the tenement builder P. A. Fogarty bought the corner of Spring and Elizabeth streets in summer 1895, tore down Koop's Hotel and hired John B. Snook & Sons. Plans filed in August called for a five-story building with a stable below and apartments above, at a cost of $15,000. Its Italian Renaissance design has two big carriage bays on Elizabeth Street and a curved, rusticated corner in stone and terra cotta.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1917

    May 29

    The Fogarty estate's holdings, including the stable, go to auction

    The auctioneer Joseph P. Day sold off the Fogarty estate's holdings on May 29, 1917, among them eight tenements and the stable at 11 Spring Street. The sale drew a good crowd, according to the Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. The stable's buyer was W. P. Fogarty, a relative and the plaintiff in the court-ordered sale, who paid $17,000. That year the immigrant Collagero Sabella, who lived upstairs, joined the Army.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1970

    Set designer John Simpson buys the sooty building and lives in it alone

    Sometime in the 1970s, as SoHo began to revive, the theatrical set designer John Simpson bought the building. Decades of soot had turned its beige brick nearly black. Eccentric and reclusive, he lived in it alone, worked on mechanical inventions and set candles in the upper windows. Meanwhile street artists covered the ground floor with art, and some graffiti artists reportedly traveled from other countries to contribute.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2003

    Lachlan Murdoch buys the building, then leaves it empty before it is converted to apartments

    In 2003 Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, bought the neglected stable for about $5.25 million, planning a lavish private home. Instead it stood vacant, and his family returned to Australia in 2005. A three-year conversion followed, producing a duplex on the first two floors, a full-floor apartment on the third and a triplex above, and the building emerged restored.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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