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14 Waverly Place | also 12 Waverly Place | Greenwich Village | built 1800

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The lot about 1940
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The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1892

    February 11

    Developer Frank Seitz buys an old three-story house at 14 Waverly Place to make way for a loft

    An earlier building on the site: Frank A. Seitz, president of a realty and construction company, bought the old three-story house at No. 14 from Isabel Lathrop on February 11, 1892. He went on to buy the similar house next door at No. 16 and demolished both to build two matching lofts.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1893

    Cleverdon & Putzel complete twin six-story Romanesque Revival lofts at 14 and 16

    Frank Seitz hired the firm of Cleverdon & Putzel for the pair, finished early in 1893. Each of the two buildings is 25 feet wide, with cast-iron storefronts under faux balconies and an arcade of recessed windows. Engaged brick columns have medieval-style capitals, and beige brick is trimmed with terra-cotta chain bands and sunburst-like arches. Seitz reportedly sold them for $250,000 in March 1893, but the deal collapsed and he held them until 1898.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1901

    July 23

    The Danzig Waist Co. advertises for a live model with a 36 figure to try shirtwaist designs

    Shirtwaists, tailored blouses modeled on men's shirts, were the most popular women's garment in America around 1900. The Danzig Waist Co. worked from 14 Waverly Place and, like fashion houses now, fitted designs on live models. Its ad in the New York Herald on July 23, 1901 sought a stylish 36 figure.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1918

    William Lauterbach links the two lofts internally for his clothing firm

    Lauterbach bought the paired buildings in 1898 and moved his firm, Andur & Goodman Co., into one of them while other millinery and apparel companies rented space. In 1918 he joined the two internally. After his death his widow Mattie sold both in 1945 to the Eastern Control Corporation, by which time the garment trade had left for north of 34th Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2010

    A renovation turns the former loft into NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

    Completed in 2010, the work converted the old garment loft at 14 Waverly Place into laboratories for the university center. Number 12 next door is joined to it internally.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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