17 East 9th Street

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

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1844
Mrs. Elisha Wells has 17 East 9th Street built, and the artist Nan Lurie lives there in 1938
The house was built in 1844 for Mrs. Elisha Wells and was updated in the 1850s with a bracketed, modillioned cornice. Its basement entrance was added in the early twentieth century, replacing the stoop. The artist Nan Lurie is recorded as a resident in 1938, long before Miné Okubo took rooms here.
“No. 17 was built in 1844 for Mrs. Elisha Wells. It was remodeled in the style of the Eighteen-fifties…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1946
Miné Okubo finishes Citizen 13660 at 17 East 9th Street, and it is published in 1946
After the War Relocation Authority let internees leave the camps, the artist Miné Okubo moved from the Topaz camp in Utah to New York, where Fortune magazine had offered her work. She settled at 17 East 9th Street and completed Citizen 13660 there, named for the number assigned to her family unit and containing more than 200 pen-and-ink sketches. The book was published in 1946 and is considered a forerunner of the graphic novel and memoir.
Source: Village Preservation

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