12 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1835

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

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1835
Builder Aaron Marsh puts up a Greek Revival row house on Leroy Street
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Aaron Marsh built 12 Leroy Street around 1835, when this part of Greenwich Village was turning into a desirable address for the middle and upper classes. Early owners included a lawyer, a jewelry importer and a maker of gas lighting fixtures. Marsh sold it in 1837 to George White.
“…constructed c. 1835 by builder Aaron Marsh. Early owners of the house included a lawyer, jewelry importer, and manufacturer of gas lighting fixtures.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
Nine Italian-born boarders, mostly restaurant workers, live in a Leroy Street boarding house
By 1930 the old row house at 12 Leroy Street was a boarding house run by an Italian-born man who had two children. All nine of his boarders were also born in Italy, and most worked in the restaurant business.
“By 1930, no. 12 Leroy Street was being used as a boarding house run by an Italian-born man with two children; all nine boarders were Italian-born men…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1941
Our Lady of Pompeii buys 12 Leroy Street, a decade after building its new church next door
In 1941 the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii bought 12 Leroy Street, a decade after finishing its new church, rectory and school on the neighboring lots. The church kept the house until 1983. In 2008-09 the attic was raised to a full third story and a rooftop addition built.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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