Elisha J. Jenkins House

13 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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.

1855
Iron merchant Henry Pierson completes three matching houses on West 9th Street, including No. 13
Pierson built three narrow Anglo-Italianate houses on land owned by James F. D. Lanier, each 17 feet wide with a rusticated brownstone base and red brick upper stories trimmed in brownstone. The house now at 13 West 9th Street was first numbered 61 Ninth Street and was renumbered in 1868. Its first residents were the family of handkerchief merchant Elisha J. Jenkins, who stayed until 1861.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1862
Dr. Julius Homberger lives at the house while launching an ophthalmology journal
Homberger lived at 13 West 9th Street briefly, in 1861 and 1862, while preparing the American Journal of Ophthalmology, which he founded and edited. The first monthly issue appeared in 1862, and the page describes it as the first journal of its kind.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1922
Edward Swann buys the house and lives there until 1938
Swann, a former judge and congressman who served as district attorney, bought the house from the estate of Katherine Maria Cooper in 1922, the year he retired. He had married Margaret W. Geisinger the previous year, to the surprise of colleagues who thought him a confirmed bachelor. The couple sold the house in July 1938 and moved to Florida, where Swann died in 1945.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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