Henry J. Seaman House

152 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1836

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1. 1836

   Aaron Marsh and John Simmons build a row of Greek Revival homes

   Builder Aaron Marsh and carpenter John Simmons buy four lots at Nos. 146 to 152 West 11th Street in 1835. A year later four identical 18-foot-wide Greek Revival houses stand on the site, faced in Flemish-bond brick. Simmons owns No. 152, which is the only one of the row never to have its attic raised to a full floor.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1854

   Former congressman Henry J. Seaman buys the house

   Henry J. Seaman, who represented New York in Congress from 1845 to 1847, buys 152 West 11th Street in 1854. He moves back to Staten Island in 1858 but keeps the house as rental property, leasing it first to dry-goods merchant Joseph P. Baker.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1895

   A copper-and-glass hood is added over the entrance

   Around 1895 a copper entrance hood with glass panels and a copper frame around the attic windows are added to 152 West 11th Street. Daytonian in Manhattan credits them, almost certainly, to Dr. John A. Burke, who leases the house at the time. The Greek Revival doorway and other original features are left intact.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1935

   Publisher Seward Collins and author Dorothea Brande make their home here

   Magazine publisher and editor Seward Collins and his wife, author Dorothea Brande, move into 152 West 11th Street by the mid-1930s. Brande teaches creative-writing courses from the house, and in 1936 20th Century-Fox buys her novel Wake Up and Live. The couple lives there at least into the 1940s.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1836 Henry J. Seaman House - 152 West 11th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 152 West 11th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
• The mystery of the copper and glass awning on a brick row house in the West VillageEphemeral New York

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