John Cameron Stone House

15 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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.

1856
October 25
John Cameron Stone marries Mary Lanier and moves into the new house
Stone, 30, married Mary Lanier, 22, daughter of James F. D. Lanier, who owned the land under the new row of three houses. The newlyweds moved into 15 West 9th Street. Stone's two children from his first marriage joined them, and the couple had two more children, born in 1859 and 1860.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1857
John Cameron Stone buys a Joseph Mozier sculpture in Rome
The Crayon reported in April 1857 that Stone had bought the American sculptor Joseph Mozier's statue of Rebecca in Rome. The work, Rebecca at the Well, stood in the West 9th Street house and is now in the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1862
June 6
John Cameron Stone dies at 36, leaving his widow with four children
Stone died on June 6, 1862, and four days later the drawing room hosted his funeral. His widow, Mary Lanier Stone, was 28 with four children to raise. The house remained her home for essentially her whole adult life, until her death in 1909, and her estate sold it the next year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1957
A conversion into apartments likely strips the original window moldings
In 1957 the house was divided into several apartments, and the original 1856 moldings around the windows were probably shaved off then. A stucco-like coating was also applied over the rusticated brownstone. The house returned to single-family use in 2018.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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