Price House

17 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1855

    Thompson Price builds an Italianate house with a three-sided bay

    Warehouse operator Thompson Price plans the house in 1854 and it is completed a year later as a red-brick Italianate home. A steep brownstone stoop leads to the parlor floor, and a three-sided bay rises from the basement through the second floor. Richly ornamented window crowns and an elaborate cornice complete the facade.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1880

    March

    George Iselin bails out a bookseller arrested by Anthony Comstock

    George Adrian Iselin, a Cornell graduate who has lived in the house since at least 1874, posts bail in March 1880 for his friend William W. Sabin, a bookseller. Anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock had arrested Sabin after buying an improper book and picture at his Nassau Street store and seizing hundreds more items. Iselin's gesture is a bold show of loyalty.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1903

    April 3

    Julien Tappan Davies hosts a dinner marking the Elevated's transfer

    Attorney Julien Tappan Davies, counsel for the Manhattan Elevated Railroad, hosts a dinner at his home on April 3, 1903, to celebrate the railroad's transfer to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. He invites executives of both companies, including August Belmont and George J. Gould. A miniature elevated track with a toy train circles the table.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1937

    Sculptor William Zorach lives in the converted studio house

    The house is converted to artists' studio apartments in 1917, and its stoop is removed and the entrance moved to the basement. Sculptor William Zorach is living here in April 1937 when the Architectural League gives his Fountain of Horses an honorable mention. That year he also shows his red granite Granite Cat, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art buys.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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