NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo

24 West 12th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1852

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.

1853
April 10
General Winfield Scott buys the West 12th Street house
Mexican-American War hero and former presidential candidate Winfield Scott purchases No. 24 from builder Charles Partridge for $26,000. Scott entertains prominent New Yorkers there, but the Civil War interrupts his stay, and he and his wife leave after eight years, renting out the furnished home.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1908
The Ladies' Christian Union opens a boarding house in the mansion
After Abby Blake Blodgett's daughter Eleanor sells the house, the Ladies' Christian Union converts it into the Rosemary, a residence for self-supporting single women. The boarding house continues operating in the former Scott mansion for decades, into the mid-twentieth century.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1990
November
NYU reopens the mansion as Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo
Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimo buys the former Winfield Scott house in 1988 and gives it to New York University, which hires architect David Helpern for a two-year renovation. The building reopens as Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, housing NYU's Department of Italian Studies.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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