18 West 9th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1859

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1859

   Isaac Greene Pearson designs three Italianate row houses

   Builder-architect Isaac Greene Pearson, who lives at No. 12, completes three 25-foot-wide houses at Nos. 14 through 18 West 9th Street in 1859. No. 18 is Italianate but keeps the earlier Greek Revival entrance. It rises three stories over a deep English basement, with an angular bay on the parlor floor and elegant arched openings above.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1877

   Insurance receiver John J. Anderson faces fraud accusations

   John J. Anderson, a resident of No. 18 and receiver of the Continental Life Insurance Company, is accused of fraud, and on April 1, 1877, his attorney dismisses the claim as "absurd." As treasurer of the Electric Manufacturing Company, Anderson later has to post bail in 1881 for one of its electricians, who had shot a doctor.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1929

   March 31

   Collector Edwin Coggeshall dies in the house, filled with Dickens and Lincoln relics

   Edwin W. Coggeshall, founder and chairman of the Lawyers' Title and Trust Company, lives in the house by 1926 and dies there on March 31, 1929, at age 87. His collection includes eleven first editions of Charles Dickens, a stool that belonged to Dickens at Gads Hill, and a chair Abraham Lincoln used in the White House.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 2006

   Uma Thurman buys and restores the house to a single home

   Actress Uma Thurman buys the 147-year-old house in 2006 for $9.5 million and begins a reverse renovation to undo its mid-century subdivision into apartments. By 2009 it is a single-family home again. She sells it in 2011 for $12 million to Edward Kaminski, chief executive of the fragrance company Parfums de Coeur.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1859 No. 18 West 9th Street Daytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 18 West 9th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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