Aquila G. Stout House
21 East 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1842
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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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- 1842
Hardware merchant Aquila G. Stout builds a wide house on East 9th Street for his own family
Aquila G. Stout, a hardware merchant, built this three-story brick house over a basement as his own residence in 1842. The lot was unusually wide, about 30 feet, which gave the house the broad front it is noted for.
“Aquila G. Stout built this wide house for his own residence in 1842. It was three stories high, with basement. He was a hardware merchant…”
- 1846
Stout leaves the hardware trade to run the Eagle Fire Insurance Company
In 1846 Aquila G. Stout, who lived in this house, left his hardware firm after being elected president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company. According to a letter from a surviving partner, his skill in finance had brought the firm continued success. Besides his own home, he built No. 23 next door in 1843, 16 East 8th Street in 1834 and Nos. 22 and 24 East 10th Street in 1844 as investments.
“He left the business in 1846, when he was elected president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Co.”
- 1928
Architect Dwight James Baum turns the old Stout house into a six-story apartment house
In 1928 the architect Dwight James Baum remodeled the 1842 town house as an apartment building. He added a story with a brick parapet and a setback penthouse, and gave the front shutters, curved iron balconies at the second floor and a first-floor storefront. The result still reads like a luxurious private home, though it now stands six stories tall.
“The architect, Dwight James Baum, also added a story with brick parapet and a penthouse which is set back.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 21 East 9th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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