Dominick Neusch House

15 Commerce Street | West Village | built 1826

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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. 1826

    Charles Oakley builds No. 15, a 21-foot-wide Federal house with a brownstone stoop

    No. 15 was one of four late Federal houses Charles Oakley built at Nos. 9-15 Commerce Street. Each stood two and a half stories high and 21 feet wide, with a brownstone stoop over an English basement. The doorway at No. 15 has paneled pilasters and narrow sidelights. A Greek Revival areaway railing with an anthemion motif was added in the 1840s or 1850s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1853

    October 19

    A ward Superintendent of Carts hosts a district council nominating meeting in his parlor

    William F. Godfrey, who held the city title Superintendent of Carts, lived at No. 15 in the early 1850s. He was active in Ninth Ward politics and in 1853 chaired his council district's committee. On October 19 he held a meeting in the house to nominate Aaron L. Deveau for district councilman. A week earlier Godfrey had advertised his rosewood piano for sale, because he was moving.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1875

    April 3

    Dominick Neusch buys No. 15 and within a week files plans to add a third story

    Real estate operator John McClelland's estate sold the house to Dominick Neusch on April 3, 1875. A week later Neusch filed plans with builders Steel & McLaughlin to add a full third story with an Italianate cornice, at a cost of $650. Neusch died at home on January 1, 1904, and his unmarried daughters Magdalena and Emma were still living there in 1917.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1922

    July 30

    An Indian student lodging at No. 15 is found dead from gas in his room

    Salatil S. Gupge, a 29-year-old from near Bombay who had studied at the University of Illinois, rented a room at No. 15 in March 1922. On July 30 the landlord, Anthony DeVola, smelled gas, broke down the door, and found him dead on the bed with two gas jets open. Police treated it as suicide, though DeVola and Gupge's friends thought it an accident. The next day many Indian residents of the city came to the house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1946

    May 13

    The Neusch family sells No. 15 after 72 years of ownership

    On May 13, 1946 The New York Times reported that a Greenwich Village dwelling held by the sellers' family for 72 years had gone to an investor in an all-cash deal. The sellers were Neusch descendants Beulah R. Morse and Ida C. Nehb. The facade was stuccoed in either 1953 or 1968, and a gut renovation that began in 2013 left no trace of the historic interiors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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