Jonathan L. Hyde House
22 East 13th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1920
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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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- 1845
A 22-foot-wide Italianate house at 22 East 13th Street is home to the Phillips family
The brick house was finished around 1845 midway between Fifth Avenue and University Place, a block below Union Square. It had three stories above a high English basement, a handsome entrance surround and a bracketed metal cornice. The Phillips family lived here; Lewis was secretary of the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, and Theodore sold silk goods on Liberty Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1851
A watch-importing family moves in after the Phillipses auction off their furnishings
The Phillips family held a household auction on April 8, 1851, selling everything from mahogany sofas to ormolu girandoles. The Jonathan L. Hyde family then took the house, along with Jonathan's father John E. Hyde, who had been importing watches on Maiden Lane since 1825. Jonathan Joseph Hyde persuaded the Swiss maker Jules Jurgensen to produce watches for the American market, with the firm as sole U.S. agent.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1874
The Scribblers' Club opens its rooms on the parlor floor with a 17-course dinner
A club for writers and publishers leased the parlor floor, and opened its rooms on December 20, 1874. Joseph Howard Jr. gave the inaugural address, followed by a dinner of 17 courses with as many old wines, and former Mayor A. Oakley Hall was among the members present. The Evening Post reported on January 15, 1875 that a letter was read from William Cullen Bryant, who regretted that he could not attend.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1890
A quarrelsome couple's trunk goes missing, and a jealous man has his companion arrested
Antonio Stradder, who also went by Joseph Kealy, was living at this address with Nellie Wright in what was reported as a scandalous arrangement. During a weekend at Long Branch, New Jersey in August 1890 he grew jealous and they quarreled, and she went back to the city with his trunk. He found it gone, had her arrested, and then declined to make a complaint in Jefferson Market Court after she promised to get his clothes back.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1900
A tenant takes her husband to court and discovers he already had another wife
Lucy Leink, who lived here in 1900, married Louis Leink on January 6, but he soon deserted her. On April 18 she sued him for support, and the Morning Telegraph reported the evidence showed he had married two women. He was held on a bigamy charge, and she was awarded $3 a week.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1921
A Prohibition agent buys one drink at George Gernant's restaurant, leading to an injunction case
Gernant moved his restaurant into the lower floors after a 1911 renovation. On November 29, 1921 Prohibition agent Samuel Kupferman went in and bought a drink, which he said Gernant watched being rung up. In January 1922 a federal judge ruled that a saloon where only one drink was sold could be enjoined as a nuisance, and the bartender was still jailed.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Much Abused Jonathan L. Hyde House - 22 East 13th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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