Joseph Low House

211 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1842

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1842

    Carpenter Joseph Low builds 211 West 11th Street, the last Greek Revival house on its block

    In 1842 Joseph Low, a city carpenter, completes this three-story brick house, one of three he developed at 211 to 215 West 11th Street. The Low family keeps the property until 1868. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it the last remaining Greek Revival house on the block, with a wide doorway flanked by narrow sidelights and original ironwork at the stoop and areaway.

    “It is the last remaining example of Greek Revival architecture on this block.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1872

    June 15

    Police find silverware from the district attorney's house in a boarder's rooms

    In June 1872 a boarder known only as Mrs. Eagan is arrested on suspicion of burglarizing the home of District Attorney Britton. On June 15 Police Officer Ferry searches her rooms at 211 West 11th Street, then a boarding house, and the New York Herald reports he found silverware and other property taken from the residence.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1925

    November 7

    An artist's wife leaves him over revels in his Village studio

    After World War I the artist Emile Herbert sets up a studio at 211 West 11th Street. On November 7, 1925 the Daily News reports that his wife, Mary de Jara Almonte Herbert, has separated from him after learning of revels in the studio. She tells the paper that Greenwich Village night life made him forget his home ties, and he does not contest the charges.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1929

    March 20

    A Ziegfeld press man is carried out to sea on an ocean liner while chasing an interview

    Burton W. Davis, a former drama critic on Florenz Ziegfeld's publicity staff, lives here with his wife, the journalist-novelist Clara Ogden Davis. On the night of March 20, 1929 he boards the liner Berlin to get a last-minute interview with a former Ziegfeld actress and is still aboard when it sails. He is put on a pilot boat, waits from 2:30 a.m. until nearly noon, and is landed by the liner Dominica at 12:30 p.m., then phones Clara, who had been frantic.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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