21 East 11th Street

also 21A East 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1848

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

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1848
The Isaacs family builds No. 21 East 11th Street as a late Greek Revival house with Italianate doors
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Built in 1848 for the Isaacs family, this four-story brick house mixes late Greek Revival form with newer Italianate touches: double paneled doors under a large glass transom, reached by a wide stoop. The builder copied the doorway capitals from the earlier house next door at No. 23, which the same family had built.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1896
Mary Cadwalader Jones keeps No. 21 after her divorce and hosts an artists' salon there
Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones, known as Minnie, lived at 21 East 11th Street with her husband Frederic Rhinelander Jones. When they divorced in 1896 she kept the house, and she lived there for about 50 years in all. Her salon drew writers and artists including Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent and Henry Adams. Her daughter Beatrix, born in 1872, became a prominent landscape architect.
“Minnie and Freddy lived at 21 East 11th Street, which she retained after their divorce, living there for 50 years in total.”
Source: Wikipedia

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