12 Grove Street

West Village | built 1840

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

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1840
Winant and Degraw build 12 Grove Street and rent it out
Carpenters turned builders Samuel Winant and John Degraw erected the row of Nos. 12-18 Grove Street in 1840, then moved into Nos. 14 and 16 and leased the two end houses. No. 12 kept its roof cornice and original window openings with simple stone lintels. Its stoop was later removed, so the house is entered at basement level, as the Landmarks Preservation Commission noted in 1969.
“They built Nos. 12-18 the following year, and moved to adjacent dwellings, Winant at No. 14, Degraw at No. 16, leasing out the two end houses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1854
A gated passage beside No. 12 leads to Grove Court, a row built for workers
The iron-gated passage between Nos. 10 and 12 Grove Street opens onto Grove Court. Grocer Samuel Cocks had acquired the rear yards in 1848 and finished the six houses there in 1854 for workingmen. In the nineteenth century the court was called Mixed Ale Alley, apparently after its residents' drinking. It took the name Grove Court after a 1921 subdivision.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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