17 Jones Street

West Village | built 1882

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

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1882
Willet C. Hunter has a three-story Italianate stable built at 17 Jones Street
In 1882 architect C. E. Hadden designed a three-story Italianate stable at 17 Jones Street for Willet C. Hunter, who had owned the lot since 1867. John Demarest was the builder. The facade has a galvanized-iron cornice with brackets, and the lot passed from Hunter to Mary Jacobus in 1901.
“…designed as a stable in 1882 by the architect C. E. Hadden for Willet C. Hunter…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
Cavallero Winery leases 17 Jones Street to make and bottle wine and vermouth
In 1938 the former stable was leased to Cavallero Winery, Inc., a maker and bottler of wine and vermouth. The building had been put up as a stable in 1882 and was owned by Mary Jacobus at the time of the wine company's arrival; it stayed in her ownership until 1953.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1966
Artist Frank Stella buys 17 Jones Street and turns the upper floors into his duplex home
In 1966 the artist Frank Stella bought the old stable, and an alteration that year converted it to mixed use, with its top two stories renovated as a duplex apartment for him. Stella is listed as the owner of record from 1966. The ground floor stayed in commercial use.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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