16 East 11th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1849
James Gallatin buys No. 16 East 11th Street after the death of his father Albert Gallatin
When Albert Gallatin, the former Secretary of the Treasury, died in 1849, his son James bought the house at No. 16 and made it his home. James had already followed his father as president of the National Bank on Wall Street, later renamed the Gallatin Bank, and he kept that post while living on East 11th Street. The house was one of a brick row put up in 1839.
“James Gallatin, who bought it in 1849 upon the death of his famous father, Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1904
Two 1839 row houses at Nos. 16 and 18 are merged into one 55-foot apartment house
In 1904 the neighboring brick houses at Nos. 16 and 18 East 11th Street, built in 1839 as the east end of a long row, were combined into a single apartment house 55 feet wide with one shared basement entrance. No. 18 had been raised to four stories in 1890, and in 1937 a top floor was added over the merged building, giving it its present six stories.
“It was formed in 1904 by combining two brick houses at the east end of a row (extending to No. 28) which was built in 1839.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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