15 East 13th Street
Greenwich Village | built 1912
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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.
- 1861
The Smith family replaces a narrow house with a three-story livery stable at 15 East 13th Street
A 20-foot-wide house stood here as late as 1859. Around 1861 the Smith family replaced it with a three-story brick livery stable, with bay doors below, hay-hoisting openings above and room for an employee to live, and a manure pit out back. Its proprietors also helped customers sell horses and carriages, and in 1868 advertised four Shetland ponies.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1891
An 18-year-old clerk is killed when he touches a dynamo while closing a silver-plating shop
The silverplating firm upstairs ran its machines from a dynamo. On March 12, 1891 John Freeman, an 18-year-old clerk responsible for closing the shop each day, reached to switch it off and touched the machine. The Troy Daily Times reported that he dropped dead on the spot.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1907
A dressmaker working in the former stable sues an English musician over a $500 silk dress
Juliette Tallet made high-end dresses for the carriage trade while working from the converted stable. In 1907 she sued the English musician Archibald Robinson, saying she had made a silk dress for his wife for $500 and never been paid. The sum would be worth more than $15,000 today.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1911
A mason at 15 East 13th Street leases the Billopp estate on Staten Island for a bungalow colony
John Gordon, a mason and builder with space here, leased the Billopp estate in Tottenville, site of Bentley Manor, built before 1680, in 1911. The Sun revealed on March 28 that he meant to make it a summer bungalow colony. Gordon kept the old stone house at the center of the cottages, and by July he was advertising tents and sites for rent.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1938
A printer at the address, which a former editor says housed Communist offices, comes to Congress's attention
The Rotograph Co. moved in at the end of 1933 and printed material for left-wing groups, including the children's magazine New Pioneer and Health and Hygiene. In 1938 the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities questioned Ralph de Sola, who had edited Health and Hygiene as John Edward Gray. He testified it was edited in the building that held the Communist offices, 15 East Thirteenth Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Former Stables at 15 East 13th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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