184 Waverly Place

also 154 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1900

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.

1828
Abraham Clark's pre-1828 Federal corner house has a cast-iron-columned store
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this corner house to before 1828 and says it was built for Abraham Clark in the Federal style, visible in the paneled lintels at the second floor. It stands only three stories high, though it lines up with the row of basement houses next to it. The ground-floor store has a cast-iron corner column, and the roof cornice continues around the corner along West 10th Street.
“It was built before 1828 for Abraham Clark, in the Federal period…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Edward Hopper's painting 'Drug Store' may show this corner
Edward Hopper's 1927 painting Drug Store depicts Silbers Pharmacy, whose sign reads 184. Hopper never named the corner, but the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation suggested it could be this Waverly Place storefront, now Three Lives & Company bookstore, which has a similar cast-iron column. The society cautioned that the storefront is a typical late-19th-century type and that the painter may have composited several locations. A tax photo from about 1940 shows a delicatessen here.
Source: Village Preservation

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