18 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1835

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

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1907
The Doe Ye Next Thynge Society opens its settlement house at 18 Leroy Street
The society, a settlement house founded in 1904, worked from this row house between 1907 and 1926. Its activities included a social club, clubs for boys and for girls, mothers' meetings and educational programs for native-born and immigrant neighbors. Its name came from a hymn by the British author Emily Steele Elliott.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
The Manhattan Council of the Boy Scouts buys the former settlement house
When the Doe Ye Next Thynge Society left in 1926, the Manhattan Council of the Boy Scouts of America bought the house. The settlement had served the working-class neighborhood from the house for nearly two decades.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1932
An Italian couple adds a third story and divides the house; in 1997 it becomes a single home again
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In 1932 the house was bought by an Italian couple, who raised it a full story and converted it to multiple dwellings. The stoop was removed and replaced with a window, and the entrance moved down to the basement. The stoop, lintels and sills were restored in 1997, when the house again became a one-family home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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