13 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1829

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

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1829
Daniel J. Westervelt has a two-and-a-half story brick house built on Leroy Street
No. 13 Leroy Street was built around 1829 for Daniel J. Westervelt, when this part of Greenwich Village was drawing middle- and upper-class New Yorkers who were leaving the commercial streets of Lower Manhattan. It was a peaked-roof brick house eighteen feet wide. In 1869 it was widened by seven feet, raised to three stories and split into a two-family dwelling.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
A Leroy Street row house becomes a private stable on its ground floor
In 1913 architect Louis Sheinart took out the front and rear walls of the first story at 13 Leroy Street and added a one-story rear extension covering the whole lot. From then until 1934 the ground floor served as a private stable, possibly together with the stable next door at no. 11. In 1934 it was converted to a garage and office.
“From 1913 until 1934, the building was used as a private stable on the ground floor…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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