Pen and Brush Club

16 East 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1848

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
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. 1848

    Grocer Abraham Bininger builds an Italianate-influenced town house at 16 East 10th Street as his own home

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    Abraham Bininger, a grocer, built this house in 1848 as his residence. Its stucco imitates brownstone, and the cast-iron stoop and areaway railings, rusticated basement and casement windows show the incoming Italianate taste. The doorway is still basically Greek Revival, though a three-centered arch beneath its entablature points the same way as the newer style.

    “…built in 1848 for Abraham Bininger, a grocer, as his own home. It reflects, in its detail, some of the influence of the incoming Italianate style.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1923

    The Pen and Brush club of women artists and writers makes the house its first permanent headquarters

    In 1923 Pen and Brush, a club for women in the literary and visual arts, settled into its first permanent home, an Italianate townhouse at 16 East 10th Street. The house had parquet floors, elaborate ceiling moldings and a large library. Members over the years included Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl S. Buck and photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and the writer Ida Tarbell served as president for 30 years.

    Source: flatironnomad.nyc

  3. 2015

    Fall

    Pen and Brush leaves its East 10th Street townhouse for a Flatiron gallery

    In fall 2015 the club left 16 East 10th Street for 29 East 22nd Street, a commercial building from 1907 with a 5,500-square-foot space on two levels. The club said the residential townhouse had limited the number of works it could properly display. The move ended more than nine decades at the address.

    Source: flatironnomad.nyc

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