Demarest Stable

22 Jane Street | West Village | built 1868

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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. 1851

    John Montgomery's family lives in an earlier house on the Jane Street lot

    Before the stable went up, the lot at No. 22 held a wide house that was home in the 1850s to John Montgomery and his wife. That year Mrs. Montgomery held a managerial post with the Methodist Episcopal Church's Ladies' Union Aid Society. The house was gone by 1868, when a stable took its place. This was an earlier building on the site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1868

    Calvin Demarest's two-story livery stable replaces the Montgomery house

    In 1868 Charles H. Demarest built a brick stable here for Calvin Demarest, with arched windows and corbels under the cornice. Thirty-one stalls filled the cellar and first floor, which points to a commercial livery rather than a private carriage house, and stable hands lived upstairs. A local tale links the building to the Chicago billiards champion Calvin Demarest, but he was born nearly two decades after it was built, far to the west.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1913

    A veterinary surgeon leases the old stable from the Demarest estate

    After Calvin Demarest's death, his estate rented the stable to Dr. P. McInerney, a veterinary surgeon, who renewed his lease in the spring of 1913. The family kept the property until June 1919. Even in 1921, when automobiles had taken over Manhattan's streets from horses, records still described it as a two-story stable.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1930

    The stable becomes a storage and shipping office, then a garage

    By 1930 the building had become a storage and shipping business, whose offices occupied the upper floor. By 1938 the ground floor was a three-car garage, the cellar held storage, and a studio apartment occupied the second floor. For the rest of the century it served plain commercial uses, including a plumbing supply shop.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1997

    Artist Jim Dine buys the former stable as his studio

    In 1997 the artist Jim Dine bought the old stable and made it his studio. A 2004 makeover turned the building into a private home of 3,800 square feet while keeping the plain brick exterior. It was offered for sale at $9.1 million in 2013.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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