122 Waverly Place

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1835
Thomas Barron builds a Greek Revival house with a shallow stoop
Thomas Barron builds No. 122 Waverly Place in 1835 as a four-story Greek Revival house with an unusually shallow stoop above an English basement. Its parlor level is faced in rusticated brownstone, and three stories of red brick with brownstone sills and lintels rise above it. Speculative builders hoped the blocks off Washington Square would share the park's prestige, but No. 122 is offering rooms to boarders by 1852.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1894
October
Tiffany & Co. watchmaker Nicolas Weiss is arrested for theft
Nicolas Weiss, a watchmaker for Tiffany & Co. who lives at No. 122, is arrested in October 1894 after Tiffany accuses him of stealing a large quantity of jewelry. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to a year in prison, but Tiffany asks Governor Morton to pardon him. In June 1895 he has his own lawyers arrested for larceny, saying they sold his watchmaking tools.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1919
June
Hal Marchbanks remodels the house into artist studios
Hal Marchbanks buys No. 122 Waverly Place in June 1919 and remodels it as studios, removing the central pier between the two westernmost windows so each floor gets broad studio openings. The stoop's wing walls and the Greek Revival entrance are kept. Newlyweds soon move into the new studios, including Tracy Hammond Lewis and his bride in 1920 and Thomas Chandler Wayland and Barbara M. Shedd.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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