20 East 11th Street
Greenwich Village | built 1839
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1933
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt rents a room at No. 20 East 11th Street from her friends Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read
No. 20 East 11th Street was owned by Elizabeth Fisher Read, a lawyer, and Esther Lape, a founder of the League of Women Voters, who were close friends and political advisers of Eleanor Roosevelt. Once she became First Lady in 1933, Roosevelt rented a room in their building and used it to escape the pressures of public life. A plaque outside now records that she lived there.
Source: Village Preservation
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 20 East 11th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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