11 West 11th Street

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

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1831
Dr. Charles M. Graham builds his Federal-style house
Physician Charles M. Graham, who had patented an artificial-teeth process nine years earlier, builds this Flemish-bond brick townhouse for himself. Three years later he builds a row of ten more houses just to the west along the same block of West 11th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1921
Resident Elizabeth Mead helps fund Marie Curie's radium
Elizabeth Manning Cleveland Mead, who lives in the house with her husband Robert Gillespie Mead Jr., accompanies Marie Curie at a Smith College ceremony and helps raise money toward Curie's purchase of radium for research. The French government recognizes her fundraising and wartime relief work the following year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1970
March 6
A bomb across the street damages the townhouse
An explosion inside the Weather Underground's bomb-making townhouse at 18 West 11th Street, across the street, shatters windows throughout the block and tears a hole in the front wall of No. 11. The townhouse at 18 West 11th is destroyed by the blast and fire, while No. 11 survives, heavily damaged.
Source: Wikipedia

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