124 Waverly Place

Greenwich Village | built 1930

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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. 1839

    James Strong builds a Greek Revival house at 124 Waverly Place

    James Strong puts up the house in 1838 and finishes it the next year, apparently never planning to live there himself. To attract renters he adds elegant ironwork, a doorway with sidelights and an anthemion-decorated transom bar, and deeply paneled brownstone wing walls beside the stoop. It appears to run as a high-end boarding house, and its first tenant is M. Antoinette Varick, daughter of James Varick, a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1915

    Developer Vincent Pepe converts the aging boarding house into artist studios

    By 1915 the house, used as a rooming house for the previous twelve years, is described as decrepit. Real estate developer Vincent Pepe buys it for $20,000 in cash and hires architect Frank M. Vitolo to remake it with broad studio windows, upgraded plumbing and electric wiring. Sculptor Rudolph Evans, later known for his statue of Thomas Jefferson in the Jefferson Memorial, rents the fourth floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1919

    The house gains a top story and a smooth stucco front

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission's Greenwich Village Historic District report says the house, built in 1838-39 for James Strong, stood three stories high above its basement. A remodeling in 1919 adds a top story and redesigns the front with a smooth stucco facing. The original Greek Revival stoop wing walls and the doorway with sidelights survive.

    Source: media.villagepreservation.org

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