238 West 11th Street

West Village | built 1853

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1. 1853

   Builder Linus Scudder erects the twin brick houses at 238 and 240 West 11th Street

   The Landmarks Commission's 1969 report says mason and builder Linus Scudder put up Nos. 238 and 240 in 1852-53 as three-story brick houses with closely spaced bracketed cornices. No. 238 was altered in 1927: it gained a basement entrance, a casement bay at the old parlor floor, and a fourth floor with a studio skylight, without losing its original cornice.

   “A pair of attractive town houses was erected in 1852-53 by Linus Scudder, a mason and a well known builder.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1863

   August 19

   A boarder's name comes up in the Civil War draft lottery

   Boarder L. Blanchard lived here in August 1863, when the Union draft lottery was held at the Sixth Avenue headquarters at 185 Sixth Avenue. The New York Times described crowds trembling as names were pulled from the wheel on the morning of August 19, and Blanchard's was among those drawn.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1895

   Resident John P. Faure, secretary of the reform Committee of Seventy, is named Commissioner of Charities

   John P. Faure, who lived here with his wife Lucie, became secretary of the Committee of Seventy in 1894, a reform group formed against Tammany Hall corruption. When reform Mayor William L. Strong took office in 1895 he named Faure Commissioner of Charities. Faure had also served as a Ninth Ward school trustee since 1888.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1898

   July 6

   Faure rides the St. John's Guild Floating Hospital with 440 mothers and sick children

   By 1897 Faure was secretary of St. John's Guild, which gave medical care to poor children, and he chaired the committee governing its Floating Hospital. On July 6, 1898, the boat took its first outing of the season down the North River with 440 mothers and sick children, and Faure was aboard in a yachting suit with his wife.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 1912

   June 19

   John P. Faure dies at the Ossining station after an express train startles him

   John P. Faure, 67, left the family's Ossining summer home for business on June 19, 1912, and collapsed and died of heart failure on the Ossining station platform when an express train unexpectedly passed. His widow Lucie does not appear to have returned to West 11th Street, and she sold the house in 1920.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

6. 1987

   Handbag designer Carlos Falchi is among the residents after a 1987 renovation

   A 1987 renovation split the house into three apartments, and among the residents was Carlos Falchi, a Brazilian-born designer born in 1944 who began his handbag and accessories business in Greenwich Village. His bags eventually sold for as much as $5,000. He sold his unit in 2013, and later owners have been reuniting the house as a single-family home.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1853 John P. Faure House - 238 West 11th Street Daytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 238 West 11th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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