112 Waverly Place

Greenwich Village | 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. 1826

    Thomas Mercein builds a Federal rowhouse on West Sixth Street

    Thomas R. Mercein erects a row of nine brick Federal houses in 1826 on what is then West Sixth Street, between Washington Square and Sixth Avenue. The houses are three bays across and three and a half stories high, with paneled stone lintels and a pair of dormers in the peaked roof. No. 112 is the last of the row to keep its 1826 look until a major remake in the twentieth century.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1881

    October 8

    The Rev. Joseph S. Atwell dies at the house

    The Rev. Joseph S. Atwell, born in Barbados and the first Black deacon ordained in Kentucky's Episcopal diocese, lives at No. 112 while serving as rector of Saint Philip's Church. He dies of typhoid fever in the house on October 8, 1881. At his memorial service in February 1882, part of a Black regiment fills front seats, and the congregation gives $235 for his widow and children.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1916

    Architect Adolph Nast plans an Arts and Crafts remake of the house

    In 1916, owner Douglas Robinson, Charles F. Brown Company files plans with architect Adolph E. Nast to turn No. 112 into studio apartments. The finished design has an asymmetrical brick facade with large expanses of glass for northern light and a skylight over the top studio, leaving no trace of the Federal house. The change follows years in which the painter Everett Shinn and his wife, the illustrator Florence Scovel Shinn, rent the house from about 1899.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1959

    April

    Playwright Lorraine Hansberry wins a Drama Critics Circle award and buys the house

    Lorraine Hansberry wins the New York Drama Critics Circle award for best American play in April 1959 for "A Raisin in the Sun." She uses the profits from the play to buy No. 112 Waverly Place. She is diagnosed with cancer and dies in January 1965, aged 34.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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