John W. Quincy House

11 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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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. 1855

    Henry Pierson builds three matching Anglo-Italianate houses

    Iron merchant Henry Pierson leased three plots on West 9th Street in 1855 and built three matching four-story Anglo-Italianate townhouses on them. Metals merchant John W. Quincy's family lived in the easternmost, originally numbered 59 Ninth Street and later renumbered 11 West 9th Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1895

    The Remsen family's church gives a Long Island village its name

    Physician Charles Remsen and his wife Lilian lived in the house from 1886 to 1890. In 1890 they acquired a summer home in Speonk, near Southampton on Long Island. After the Remsens built a church for the village, its citizens renamed it Remsenburg in 1895.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1918

    August 15

    A son of the house is wounded fighting in France

    Winfield M. Putnam, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, dropped out in August 1917 to enlist in the Army and trained at the artillery school at Fort Sill. In May 1918 he sailed with the 16th Field Artillery for France. His family, headed by his father Winfield S. Putnam, a Cooper Union chemistry instructor, lived in the house during the war. Winfield was severely wounded on August 15, 1918, and a cablegram to his father said one foot had to be amputated.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1927

    October

    Novelist Nell Martin, a tenant, is hurt when a taxi hits her car

    By December 1926 the house held nine apartments, and the following year one of its tenants was novelist Nell Martin, author of The Constant Simp and Lord Byron of Broadway, which MGM adapted into a 1930 film. When a taxicab struck her car at Eleventh Street, she was thrown backward, and she collapsed that night with a concussion. The New York Sun reported on October 24, 1927 that she was still confined to bed in the house three days later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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