Richard Grant White House

118 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1861

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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. 1861

    Richard Grant White moves his family into a new Anglo-Italianate house

    Shakespearean scholar and music critic Richard Grant White moves into the newly built house on land subdivided from the Stuyvesant family estate. He lives there with his wife, Alexina, and sons Richard Mansfield and Stanford, while serving as chief of the U.S. Revenue-Marine. White remains at the address until selling the house in 1878.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1871

    Stanford White begins his architectural apprenticeship while living here

    At 18, Stanford White, the younger son of the house's owner Richard Grant White, becomes an apprentice in the office of architect Henry Hobson Richardson in 1871. He leaves East 10th Street in 1878 for a tour of Europe, and on his return in 1879 he joins Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead to form McKim, Mead and White.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1958

    The house is divided into four apartments

    The New York Times reports on June 9, 1958, that S. P. Sloane and Lloyd Hauser have bought the house. They planned ten apartments, but the renovation produces four: a duplex in the basement and first floor, one apartment each on the second and third floors, and a duplex on the fourth and fifth.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1974

    September 9

    Designers Huibert Zuur and Edward J. Austin show their clothing line in their apartment

    Huibert Zuur and Edward J. Austin, who both worked for Halston, launch their own women's clothing line, Austin-Zuur, in 1973. The New York Times reports on September 9, 1974, that the partners present their collection in their glass, brick and wicker duplex apartment at the address.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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