Clinton Gilbert House

12 1/2 West 10th Street | also 12A West 10th Street, 12 West 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1846

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1846
Augustus Clason builds an extra-wide rowhouse that banker Clinton Gilbert buys
Attorney Augustus W. Clason Jr. began the house in 1845 as an investment and finished it in 1846, giving it an unusual 32-foot width. The parlor floor had floor-to-ceiling windows behind fine cast-iron balconies. Banker and importer Clinton Gilbert bought it and lived there with his wife, Mary Stokes, and her widowed mother, who died in the house in 1849.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1897
December
Architect Bruce Price is living in the house he remodeled
After a quick series of sales that began in 1894, the house came to Bruce Price, who added a full top floor, replaced the parlor windows with a large copper-clad oriel, and gave it a neo-Classical entrance with eccentric brass door hardware. A New-York Tribune reporter found him living there in December 1897. His daughter Emily, who married Edwin Post, later became famous for her etiquette books.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1915
November 28
President Woodrow Wilson visits his fiancee Edith Bolling Galt at the house
In the fall of 1915 Edith Bolling Galt was staying here with her friend Alice Gertrude Gordon, niece of Henry Wood Flournoy's wife, in the Flournoy household. The New-York Tribune reported that Wilson called on November 28 and stayed more than two hours while reporters and Secret Service men waited outside. He had reportedly proposed at the house, and the couple married on December 18, 1915.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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