14 Minetta Street

Greenwich Village | built 1848

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1. 1847

   Merchant Abraham Van Nest builds three Greek Revival houses on Minetta Street, including No. 14

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   Around 1847 Abraham Van Nest, a prominent merchant and president of the Greenwich Savings Bank, put up three three-story brick Greek Revival houses at Nos. 10 to 14 Minetta Street. Each stood on a lot only a little over 16 feet wide, and the row was laid out on a 50-foot plot. In 1924 the architect Arthur C. Holden remodeled No. 14 and its neighbor No. 12 into two-family homes.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1872

   Roomers at 14 Minetta Street place newspaper ads seeking washing and service work

   Several tenants lived in single rooms at No. 14 in 1872, and at least three used newspaper ads to look for work. A Black woman on the third floor back offered to do laundry for gentlemen or families, and in the following months two Black men advertised for places as a cook or waiter and as a waiter or coachman. The ads show the house serving the working-class community of Little Africa.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1957

   Artist Sidnee Livingston is living at 14 Minetta Street by 1957 and stays into the 1970s

   By 1957 the house at 14 Minetta Street was home to the artist Sidnee Livingston, who remained into the 1970s. Livingston, who was born in 1909, trained at the National Academy of Design and at New York University. The actor Sir John Gielgud collected her work and at one point held the largest private collection of it.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 2010

   August

   A man claims a 50-year, $10-a-month lease at No. 14 after owner Wilfred Schuman's death

   The ballet dancer Wilfred Schuman bought Nos. 12 and 14 Minetta Street in 1993 and died in 2010. That August a man named Jud Parker demanded that a tenant in No. 14 pay $1,500 to sublet her apartment or leave. Pari Dulac, who bought the two houses from Schuman's estate, found that Parker held a 50-year lease at $10 a month, which he described as a gift for caring for Schuman. Dulac sued, claiming the lease was manipulated or forged.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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