183 West 4th Street

West Village | built 1910

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.

1917
Ferdinand Savignano designs a two-story brick house for Albert B. Maclay
Savignano designed this two-story brick building in 1917 for Albert B. Maclay. Its paneled double door, dentiled transom bar and shallow fanlight beneath a brick arch with keystone and impost blocks harmonize with the low house to the west at No. 185. That neighbor had begun as a private stable at the rear of a Washington Place house.
“Built in 1917 for Albert B. Maclay by Ferdinand Savignano, architect, this brick building of two full stories is sympathetic in style with its low neighbor to the west.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1962
October 15
Art dealer Armand Hammer buys Nos. 183 and 185 and merges them into one home
By 1962 the neighboring house at No. 185 had been divided into small apartments on each floor. Hammer bought both buildings on October 15, 1962, the same day he bought three Federal houses on Washington Place, and converted them into a single residence. A jazz fan, he used it as a downtown retreat within walking distance of the clubs. His estate sold it in 2000 to the architects Anne Fairfax and Richard Sammons.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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