2 East 12th Street

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1862
Ernest Tuckerman buys a Gilbert Stuart portrait
Ernest Paul Rene Tuckerman, the only son of Newport millionaire Joseph Tuckerman Jr., trained as an artist and collected pictures. In 1862 he acquired Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton, buying it from the painter's widow, Jane. His father owned the 25-foot-wide Italianate house at 2 East 12th Street, which the family left in 1868.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1892
The Tailer household at 2 East 12th Street stays full through a year of weddings
Sophia Tailer, widowed since 1878, shared the house with her grown children. In April 1892 her daughter Emily married Dr. Valentine Mott at St. George's Church and left. Her son Henry Pennington Tailer and his bride, Clara Wright, then moved in with Sophia and his brother and sister.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1918
Architect Frank Vitolo converts the house into studio apartments
John Fogliasso bought the former Tuckerman house in January 1918 and hired architect Frank E. Vitolo to turn it into studio apartments. Vitolo took off the stoop, moved the entrance down to the basement level, removed the cornice, and replaced the attic with a full top story. Little of the mansion's original elegance survives.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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