Ambrose Kirtland House

226 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1838

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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. 1838

    Judge Ambrose Kirtland moves into a new Greek Revival house at 226 West 11th Street

    In 1838 Ambrose Kirtland, a jurist, moves into one of two matching Greek Revival houses completed on what was then Hammond Street. The 25-foot-wide red brick house has a doorway framed by stone pilasters and a stoop whose stepped stone wing walls end in scrolled volutes in place of iron railings. Around 1868 a mansard roof is added for an extra floor, but the doorway and much else is unchanged.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1848

    June 27

    Kirtland's daughter Fannie marries Army engineer Nathaniel Michler

    Kirtland raises his family in the house, and his son Richard is born there in 1838. His daughter Elizabeth marries Theodore Cozzens in 1846. On June 27, 1848 Fannie marries Nathaniel Michler, a member of the Army's Topographical Corps of Engineers, and after Kirtland's death in November 1850 his widow Charlotte leaves to live with them on Eighth Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1852

    November 19

    The house is auctioned to Harvey Barmore of the piano-making Barmore family

    The house is sold at auction on November 19, 1852, advertised as a genteel three-story brick house at 60 Hammond Street. The buyer, Harvey Barmore, lives here with his wife Maria and their seven children. He and his brother Garrit are partners in the piano maker G. & H. Barmore, founded in 1836 with a shop at 368 Bleecker Street, and another piano maker, William Robertson, moves in after the Barmores leave.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1936

    February 5

    A resident research worker is arrested on a WPA picket line outside the Museum of Natural History

    Helen Crowe, 28, rooms at 226 West 11th Street and works on a Works Progress Administration research project at the American Museum of Natural History. When 22 staffers are transferred, she calls the moves arbitrary and, on February 5, joins a picket line at the museum's 77th Street entrance. A crowd of about 200 gathers, and she is one of 20 protesters taken away in a paddy wagon and charged with disorderly conduct.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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