Robert Hogan House

175 MacDougal Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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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. 1837

    Dr. Robert Hogan builds a Greek Revival house a block north of Washington Square

    Dr. Robert Hogan completes his 25-foot-wide, brick-faced home at 175 MacDougal Street in 1837, in the new Greek Revival style. A high brownstone stoop leads to a doorway three bays wide. The house goes up as fine mansions are lining Washington Square, the former potter's field turned parade ground.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1839

    Robert Hogan becomes president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

    Hogan serves as president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick from 1839 through 1842, so in each of those years he oversees the St. Patrick's Day Parade. He also heads the Irish Emigrant Society. In 1846 he serves as vice-president of a committee formed to aid the famishing people of Ireland.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1876

    September

    Furniture dealer Muretta O'Brien, a tenant here, is swindled out of $1,500 in furniture

    Owner William Henry White leases the house in the early 1870s to Muretta O'Brien, who runs a retail furniture business. In September 1876 a woman using several aliases, including Helen B. Dexter, has O'Brien furnish a rented house and then sells the goods and vanishes. Detectives arrest her as Mrs. Lincoln on a grand larceny charge on September 21.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1937

    October 11

    Grant Studios art gallery opens in the house, which had held the Brick House tea room

    Adelaide Goan buys the house in 1930, turns the first two floors into a tea room called The Brick House, and rents the upper floors to an illustrator. On October 11, 1937 Grant Studios, an art gallery formerly in Brooklyn Heights, opens here with its 17th annual invitation exhibition. The gallery stays at least through 1949.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1975

    Reminiscence opens a clothing and gift store in the ground-floor space

    In 1975 a store called Reminiscence replaces a dress shop in the retail space. It sells clothing and gifts, often quirky items such as a washable canvas lunch bag that costs $14 in 1981. The store stays until 1985, when it moves to 74 Fifth Avenue.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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