Pompeo Coppini Studio

210 West 14th Street | West Village | built 1910

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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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  1. 1870

    May 17

    A society wedding links the Young family to Cuban officer Carlos Loynaz, with a reception in the house

    Elizabeth Bleecker Young, daughter of Edmund Murray Young, married Major Carlos Francisco Loynaz of General Quesada's staff at Trinity Chapel on May 17, 1870. The Evening Telegram praised her white satin gown and called the reception in the family's house, then numbered 88 West 14th Street, a select and elegant affair. The couple moved in, and in 1878 Elizabeth raised funds for a lodging house for unemployed women.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1911

    December 22

    Police find a counterfeiting outfit in a roomer's quarters

    By 1911 the old house was a rooming house, and tenant Alfred J. Jarman, an older Englishman who worked in a scientific journal's patent department and had a family home in Newark, was raided on December 22. Police found a lithographic press, ten plates for ten-dollar notes, ink, paper and molds. He also made coins, and a hundred fake dimes and quarters turned up.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1923

    Sculptor Pompeo Coppini buys the house and converts it into studios

    Coppini, an Italian-born sculptor who had come to the United States in 1896, and his wife bought the 1848 Greek Revival house in 1923. Architect Albert S. Gottlieb removed the stoop, moved the entrance to street level, and created a basement store and studio, parlor-floor offices, a duplex for the Coppinis and three artist studios on top. The carved relief of an artist with a brush above the new door is thought to be Coppini's own work.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1929

    Casa Moneo opens on the ground floor, selling Spanish foods to Little Spain

    In 1929 the ground-floor space was leased to Carmen Barañano, a Spanish-born widow, who named her shop Casa Moneo after her late husband, Jesús Moneo. She sold imported Spanish foods and goods to the residents of the Little Spain emerging along West 14th Street. Even after the building was sold in 1956, the shop stayed, remaining until 1988.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1943

    October

    Marcel Duchamp rents a top-floor studio, where he later works quietly on a secret tableau

    Duchamp took one of Coppini's top-floor studios in October 1943 and paid $40 a month in 1952. In April 1952 Life magazine described his small, high studio, dominated by a chess table. He lived here until 1959, when he moved to West 10th Street, but kept working here until his death in 1968, including on the large tableau Étant donnés that the Philadelphia Museum of Art describes.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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