James N. Wells House
162 9th Avenue | also 160 9th Avenue | Chelsea | built 1920
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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.
- 1899
Patrick Bird, a city stenographer, runs the Catholic Boys' Association from the house
Patrick H. Bird, who worked as a stenographer for the city's Docks Department, was living here by 1898. The Catholic Boys' Association was formed in 1899 to keep boys off the streets at night and give them amusements, and for several years Bird administered it from this house.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1941
The house's brick front is painted white
By 1941 the brick front had been painted white, and a fire escape at the rear shows that more than one household lived in the house. The large residence was costly to keep as a single home, and Ninth Avenue had turned commercial, so it was eventually divided into apartments. Its heavy cast-iron fence still wraps the property.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The James Wells House at No. 162 9th AvenueDaytonian in Manhattan
- JAMES N. WELLS HOUSE, ChelseaForgotten New York
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