18 Jones Street
West Village | built 1844
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1900
Census takers find three Black families at 18 Jones Street, including a widow with five lodgers
A Greek Revival house built around 1844 for George Schott had been divided into apartments by the 1850s. In 1880 the census showed three white families there, among them the owner, Diana Low. By 1900 the house held three Black families, including an elderly widow who took in five lodgers.
- 1910
The Cooperative Social Settlement Society buys 18 Jones Street along with its two neighbors
In 1910 a New York City group, the Cooperative Social Settlement Society, bought numbers 16, 18 and 20 Jones Street. The city directory for 1940 lists number 18 as the Greenwich House Men's residence.
- 1947
Architect Henry T. Howard and his wife buy 18 and 20 Jones Street and add studio windows
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In 1947 Henry T. Howard, an architect, and his wife Jane bought 18 Jones Street and the house next door at number 20 from the settlement. They removed the front stoops and cut studio windows into the rooflines, and the report now describes the house as a three-family residence.
“In 1947 the building and the adjoining house at 20 Jones Street were upgraded by new owners, Henry T. Howard, an architect, and his wife Jane…”
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