Jacob G. Dyckman House

126 Bank Street | West Village | built 1837

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

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  1. 1837

    Alderman Jacob G. Dyckman builds three rental houses on Bank Street, including 126

    Jacob G. Dyckman, a descendant of the Dyckman farm family of upper Manhattan, was an alderman and former state legislator when he erected three speculative houses here in 1837. He kept them as rentals, and the house now numbered 126 (116 until the 1866 renumbering) first held the sisters Amelia and Elizabeth Felter and a Washington Street grocer.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1852

    August 14

    Mrs. Robinson runs 126 Bank Street as a boarding house and advertises in the Tribune

    By the early 1850s the little house was a boarding house kept by a Mrs. Robinson. On August 14, 1852 she advertised fine airy rooms, with board and bath privileges, in the New-York Daily Tribune. Her 1853 boarders included a fancy-goods dealer and a bookseller. The house was still taking lodgers in 1883, at $2 to $4.25 a week.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1888

    August 27

    A tenant at 126 Bank Street is beaten in the hallway by her estranged husband and taken to St. Vincent's

    Lizzie Wood, a 21-year-old actress, had left her abusive husband Joseph, an ice vendor, and rented a room here. On August 27, 1888 he waited in the hallway and beat her, and she lay all night on the rear stairs to the basement until another tenant found her. She was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where doctors doubted she would live, and police were asked to watch for him in Jersey City.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1940

    Scottish-born painter Bruce Mitchell lives at 126 Bank Street and may have built its attic studio

    Bruce Handiside Mitchell, born in Tayport, Scotland in 1908, moved here with his wife Olivia Dehn in the early 1940s. His paintings are held today by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The attic was probably remodeled with a wall of windows for north light, and Mitchell died in 1963.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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