The Revere (Martin Payne Building)

130 West 12th Street | also 122 West 12th Street | West Village | built 1941

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  1. 1940

    Village Construction Corporation builds the Revere, a 12-story apartment house by H. I. Feldman

    Construction began in 1940 on the Revere Apartments, planned for 118 families in units of one and a half to four and a half rooms. Architect Hyman Isaac Feldman gave the twelve-story building a cast-stone base, brown brick walls and corner-wrapping casement windows. By October 1941 eight apartments had been leased, while the building was still under construction.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1941

    Poet William Rose Benet and his bride Marjorie Flack are among the Revere's first residents

    William Rose Benet, a poet and longtime editor at the Saturday Review of Literature, married the children's author Marjorie Flack in 1941, just before moving in. A year after the move, his book The Dust Which Is God won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. On May 4, 1950, he left the building for a meeting, collapsed on Broadway and died at a hospital.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1943

    January 11

    Anti-fascist editor Carlo Tresca, who lived here, is shot dead on Fifth Avenue

    Carlo Tresca, who edited the Italian-American paper Il Martello, had moved to the Revere with his partner Margaret De Silver, who feared for his safety on the commute from Brooklyn. On the night of January 11, 1943, a gunman killed him as he crossed Fifth Avenue at 15th Street, and the killer was never identified. His hearse later passed the building on its way through the Italian district.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1947

    May 16

    Writers gather in a Revere apartment to confront sculptor William Hunt Diederich over antisemitic pamphlets

    When postal workers traced antisemitic pamphlets to the sculptor William Hunt Diederich, fellow members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters met at William Rose Benet's apartment here on May 16, 1947. Diederich was asked to explain and offered an incoherent acknowledgement of guilt. Benet warned that Fascist-minded people would use such material, and a press conference was called straight away.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1958

    October

    St. Vincent's Hospital buys the Revere as staff housing and renames it the Martin Payne Building

    The Advocate reported in October 1958 that St. Vincent's Hospital had bought the 125-unit building to house its medical and nursing staff. Renamed the Martin Payne Building, it listed 18 on-call dormitories, 35 staff apartments, a guest suite and 64 offices in a 1982 summary.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 2011

    September

    Rudin Management guts the former hospital residence and turns it into One Thirty West 12 condominiums

    After St. Vincent's Hospital voted to close in 2010, Rudin Management bought the building and gutted it, cutting the unit count from 100 to 43 for a condominium with a rooftop terrace. The three penthouses included one bought by Rosie O'Donnell, who reportedly outbid Cameron Diaz, and one by fashion executive Andrew Rosen. The last penthouse sold for $8,422,899.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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