Mead-Metraux House

193 Waverly Place | West Village | built 1847

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1847

    Carpenter Patrick Cogan completes a Greek Revival house at 193 Waverly Place

    Patrick Cogan, a carpenter, built this Greek Revival house between 1845 and 1847. The stoop still carries its original iron handrailings, while the double entrance doors with small panels were added in the later Queen Anne period. Sheet-metal lintels with cornices were later fitted over the original stone window lintels.

    “This fine Greek Revival house was built in 1845-47 by Patrick Cogan, carpenter.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1906

    September 17

    A purse snatcher is caught after targeting a woman who lives at 193 Waverly Place

    On the morning of September 17, 1906, Mary Farrell left 193 Waverly Place to pray at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church on Sixth Avenue. Tony Adamos, aged nineteen, slid into the pew behind her and took her purse. An usher and a crowd of passersby chased him, and Policeman Leahy caught him and recovered the pocketbook. Adamos was held on $500 bail.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1955

    Anthropologists Rhoda Metraux and Margaret Mead share the house at 193 Waverly Place

    In 1955 Rhoda Bubendey Metraux, an anthropologist and the partner of Margaret Mead, bought the house. The two women lived here until 1966 with Metraux's son Daniel, who was Mead's godson. Mead's People and Places and Anthropologists and What They Do appeared while she lived on Waverly Place. Before moving to an apartment on Central Park West, they invited friends to a "house cooling" on June 11.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1982

    The house plays the home of a character in the film Author! Author!

    For the 1982 film Author! Author!, the front of 193 Waverly Place was used for exterior shots of the home of the character Ivan Travalian. Daytonian in Manhattan includes a still of Al Pacino climbing the steps. The house was then, and remains, a private residence.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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