Henry Jarvis Raymond House

134 West 13th Street | West Village | built 1842

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  1. 1842

    One of the best-preserved Remsen row houses, with a fine original doorway

    No. 134 was built in 1842 as part of the twelve-house Greek Revival row of the Remsen estate. The Landmarks Commission's Greenwich Village Historic District report calls it, with No. 126, the best preserved of the row. It praises the dentiled cornice, the low attic windows, the white exterior blinds added later, and the original doorway with pilasters, side lights and a transom.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1847

    Henry Jarvis Raymond, the first editor of The New York Times, makes this his home

    Henry Jarvis Raymond, a journalist at Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune, took the house in 1847 after the first owners, a lawyer's family, moved out of the city. He lived here with his wife Juliette Weaver Raymond and their growing family until 1860. In those years he founded The New York Times and rose in state politics.

    “From 1847 to 1860 it was the home of Henry Jarvis Raymond, first editor of The New York Times.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1851

    Raymond persuades George Jones to start a newspaper with him, and The New York Times begins

    Four years after moving in, Raymond convinced George Jones, a fellow writer at the New-York Tribune, to join him in starting a new paper. Raymond, Jones & Company founded The New York Times, with Raymond as its first editor. He wanted a paper that reported the news without the open party bias of the day. He also served as Lieutenant Governor from 1855 to 1856 and was called a godfather of the Republican Party.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1863

    August

    Two boarders are called up in the Civil War draft

    By 1863 the house belonged to the importer Frederick Pfaff, whose family took in two gentlemen boarders at a time. When the Enrollment Act required every man aged 20 to 45 to register for the Civil War draft, one boarder, E. Gillher, was drafted on August 18. The other, H. Garver, had his name called two days later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1893

    October

    A landlady shelters two runaways from Baltimore, and the girls are arrested

    Mrs. Moodey ran the house as a boarding house in the early 1890s. In October 1893 she took in two Black teenage girls from Baltimore, Sadie Chester and Jennie Jones, who had run out of money and lost their train tickets home. When she wrote to Baltimore, the Jones family answered with a telegram asking New York police to hold the girls for stealing, and they were taken to the Tombs Police Court.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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