Robert H. Sherwood House

206 East 13th Street | East 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.

1851
Attorney Robert H. Sherwood lives in a new Anglo-Italianate house that stands apart
By 1851 attorney Robert H. Sherwood lives in a recently built, 16-foot-wide house at what is now 206 East 13th Street, then numbered 120. It skips the usual high stone stoop for a low, three-step porch, and has a rusticated stone base and floor-to-ceiling parlor windows. The Sherwoods move out in 1853, and the address is renumbered 206 in 1867.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1884
May
Conrad Dormann buys the house and runs it as a rooming house
Conrad Dormann buys the house from Delia Ritter for $15,200 and operates it as a rooming house. He leases it to Mary Studer in May 1885, and the roomers who follow are largely working class. The building is converted to one apartment per floor in 1968.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1972
Todd Rundgren lives here in 1972, the year of two of his best-known songs
Singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren is living in one of the building's apartments by 1972. That year brings two of his best-known songs, "Hello It's Me" and "I Saw the Light." Singer Bebe Buell later recalls in her 2001 book Rebel Heart that his apartment was a mess, in sharp contrast to the building's stately nineteenth-century interior.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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