11 Washington Mews

also 6 Washington Square North | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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

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1854
No. 11 Washington Mews is one of three adjoining brick stables standing before 1854
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report counts No. 11 among three neighboring brick, slate-roofed stables on the south side of the mews built before 1854. Two stable doorways are now bricked up, and the second-floor windows, which keep their original muntined sash, point to the 1830s or 1840s. A swagged lintel over the paneled front door was added later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1868
April 9
Saul Alley's executors auction the lease of the house and its rear stable
Mary Alley's death in 1868 left five years on the lease, which the executors of Saul Alley sold at auction on April 9. The listing offered the three-story brick house, in complete order, along with a two-story stable at the rear. Goold Hoyt Redmond, a bachelor millionaire, bought it for $36,000 and moved in with three of his sisters.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1923
May 17
An artist is arrested for sketching the house from the forbidden grass of Washington Square Park
John R. Morron, the industrialist who leased the house in 1919, hired the Connecticut artist Ozias Dodge to sketch it. On May 17, 1923 Dodge stepped onto the park's off-limits lawn to fit the trees into his view, and Patrolman Harry J. Booth arrested him when he refused to move. At Essex Market Court he pleaded guilty and received a suspended sentence.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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