17 Grove Street

also 98 Bedford Street | West Village | built 1822

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.

1822
Window-sash maker William Hyde builds a wood-frame house
Window-sash maker William Hyde built the two-story wood-frame house at 17 Grove Street in 1822. A small wooden workshop still stands at the back of the lot. Both survive as rare examples of wooden construction in Greenwich Village, since an 1866 fire law outlawed new wooden buildings in the city.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1870
A third story is added to the Hyde house at 17 Grove Street
The 1969 Greenwich Village designation report records that the house was originally two stories and gained a third in 1870. The addition was made in keeping with the original, and the house is crowned by a wood cornice on brackets with jigsaw scrollwork on its fascia board.
Source: media.villagepreservation.org
1936
Berenice Abbott photographs the wood-frame house in 1936
Berenice Abbott photographed 17 Grove Street in 1936, when the house had its third floor and a fire escape on the front. The single-family home had been divided into apartments around 1920, and the rear workshop had become a separate residence of its own.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1987
The Hyde house is restored as a single-family home
In 1987 the house was bought for $1.1 million and restored as a private home. Its doorway has a Greek Revival flavor that suits the 1870 cornice, while the plain Federal doorway visible in the 1936 photograph was part of the original house. Today the building reads as a single-family residence again.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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