George L. Walker House

18 East 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1847

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.

1847
March
Abner Weyman builds a Gothic Revival house but dies before its completion
Retired merchant Abner Weyman begins construction of the four-story, brick-faced house in 1846 at what was then 86 10th Street. Its recessed entrance, framed by clustered columns beneath a Gothic-arched entablature, stands out among the surrounding Greek Revival houses. Weyman dies at age 61 in March 1847, before the house is finished.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1902
June
Hettie Sherman Evarts Beaman, daughter of a secretary of state, leases the house
In June 1902 Hettie Sherman Evarts Beaman, eldest daughter of Secretary of State William Maxwell Evarts, leases the house. Her husband, Charles Cotesworth Beaman, the first Solicitor General of the United States, had died the year before. Her unmarried brother-in-law, lawyer William Stacy Beaman, lives with her and is still in the house in 1917, the year she dies in Boston.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1927
The Civic Club hosts meetings defending Sacco and Vanzetti
By 1927 the house is home to the Civic Club, a liberal organization that hosts speakers on controversial subjects. After anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sentenced to death that year, the club joins organizations nationwide in protest and holds a protest meeting in the house on April 15. In October it also takes in a Sacco and Vanzetti symposium that a restaurant had canceled.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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