Raefle House

112 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1861

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

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  1. 1861

    Mathias Banta builds a row of houses, including 112 East 10th Street, on the former Stuyvesant property

    Builder Mathias Banta erects a row of Anglo-Italianate houses on land once part of the Stuyvesant farms, completed in 1861 and generally attributed to architect James Renwick Jr. The five-story house now numbered 112 has a rusticated brownstone basement and first floor under red brick trimmed in brownstone, and Josiah Burton buys it for $6,500.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1867

    November 13

    Dr. Maximilian Raefle, a former Navy surgeon, rents the house and marries Sarah Bunce

    Dr. Maximilian Gustav Raefle, a German-born physician who served as a Navy surgeon in the Civil War, answers an 1867 advertisement to rent the furnished house from Josiah Burton. He marries Sarah Olmsted Bunce on November 13, 1867, and the couple buy the house from Burton in 1872 for $18,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1879

    December 16

    Dr. Maximilian Raefle becomes deputy coroner while living at 112 East 10th Street

    While residing at the house he owns with his wife Sarah, Dr. Maximilian Raefle is appointed deputy coroner under John H. Brady on December 16, 1879, a post he holds for eleven years. He is nominated for the elected office of coroner in 1890.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1928

    112 East 10th Street is converted into artists' apartments

    A renovation completed in 1928 turns the former rooming house into artists' apartments, with large multi-paned studio windows and a raised attic under a full-width skylight. Painter and etcher Anne Goldthwaite is among the first residents, and art expert David Rosen is still living in the building when he dies in 1960.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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