Charles Lewis Tiffany House

125 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1854

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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.

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  1. 1854

    Robert Carnley builds twin houses including the future Tiffany home

    Robert Carnley erects two matching houses at 193 and 195 Tenth Street in 1854, later renumbered 123 and 125 East 10th Street. The four-story houses have rusticated stone bases, red brick upper floors trimmed in sandstone, and full-width cast-iron balconies at the second floor. They stand just steps from St. Mark's churchyard.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1854

    Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany moves his family in

    Charles Lewis Tiffany, whose jewelry firm is newly renamed Tiffany and Company, moves into No. 195 Tenth Street with his wife, Harriet, and their children, including six-year-old Louis Comfort. Tiffany had started in business with John B. Young in 1837. The family leaves the house in 1859.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1859

    Tiffany & Co. partner George McClure moves into the house

    George McClure, the husband of Harriet Tiffany's sister Maria and a partner in Tiffany & Co., moves in with his family when the Tiffanys leave in 1859. During the Civil War he joins the 22nd Regiment as quartermaster and rises to the rank of colonel. The McClures move to the Everett House in 1870.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2019

    October

    Critic Nicolai Ouroussoff and painter Cecily Brown buy the house

    Nicolai Ouroussoff, a former architecture critic for the New York Times, and his wife, the artist Cecily Brown, buy the house for $7.75 million in October 2019. Earlier buyers included Kathryn Cerick in 2006 and banker Olivier Sarkozy, who married Mary-Kate Olsen in 2015. Brokers long credited the design to James Renwick Jr., though the source finds no evidence of it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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