Milbank House

11A West 10th Street | also 11 West 10th Street | 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. 1849

    January 1

    Richard H. Winslow, who built the house, founds the firm that originates the railroad bond system

    Richard Henry Winslow, a Wall Street broker, built the house on West 10th Street in 1847 and bought the vacant lot beside it for a garden. On New Year's Day 1849 he and neighbor James F. D. Lanier formed the partnership of Winslow & Lanier, originating the railroad bond system. By 1852 the firm was negotiating $1.6 million of sales in a single day. Winslow retired in 1859 and died in 1861.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1883

    March 31

    A well-dressed 'boarding house raider' is arrested after charming his way into Mary Walters's boarding house

    By 1883 the house was an upscale boarding house run by Mary Walters. A polished young man named Charles Raymond told her he was arranging rooms for his parents arriving from Nebraska, inspected the apartments, and left for the train station with her valuables in his pockets. Police arrested him on March 31 and charged him with robbing boarding-house keepers, a trick he had repeated about a dozen times.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1891

    September 29

    Seventeen-year-old Henry Slade elopes to St. Mark's with Olivia Hoe, and her sister marries right after

    Henry Lewis Slade, 17, of the Slade family that lived in the house, secretly married Olivia Hoe, daughter of millionaire Robert Hoe, at St. Mark's Church. Her mother opposed the match, but the minister, Rev. Dr. J. H. Rylance, agreed to officiate since the pair were set on it. Olivia's sister Laura, who came along supposedly as a witness, married Ernest Trow Carter in a second ceremony immediately afterward.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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