245 West 13th Street

West Village | built 1854

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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.

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  1. 1854

    Mary Ann C. Rogers builds six Italianate houses on West 13th Street, including No. 245

    Mary Ann C. Rogers worked in a real estate development field that was then almost entirely male, and in 1854 she built a row of six Italianate houses, each 21 feet wide. No. 245 has three bays and three stories over a rusticated brownstone basement, reached by a high stoop to a double-doored entrance with a segmental arch. Its cornice, topped by plain blocks, avoids the carved pediments and brackets that were popular in the style.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1882

    January

    The Mulry family, Irish Catholic builders, settle into No. 245 with a large family

    William Mulry, a builder and member of the Real Estate Exchange, bought the house in January 1882 for $9,740, but his brother Thomas Maurice Mulry's family moved in. The brothers had come from Ireland in the 1840s and started as construction laborers known as cellar-diggers. Thomas and his wife Parthenia had 14 children, four of whom became priests and two nuns, and her funeral was held in the house in 1902.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1913

    May 14

    The Florence Crittenton Mission buys No. 245 as a home for women in need

    The New York Press reported on May 14, 1913 that the Florence Crittenton Mission, founded in 1883, had bought the house after selling its Bleecker Street property, where it had been for about 35 years. Residents, who included unwed mothers and women the mission hoped to steer away from prostitution, shared the housework, and gospel services were held here. The Evening Telegram reported that its first Thanksgiving in the house fed 300 people.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1935

    Tenant Stanley Wescott, a payroll robber, is caught while plotting a Pennsylvania coal payroll job

    By 1935 the house was a rooming house, and one tenant was Stanley Wescott, 25, who with 20-year-old Joseph Fletcher had stolen the $7,500 Swift & Co. payroll in August 1934. The pair then scouted a coal-mining payroll in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, checking the post office daily. Their flashy clothes made the postmistress suspicious, weapons were found in their hotel room, and the New York Post ran the story on September 16.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2014

    Artist Angel Oliveros turns the house back into a single-family home with salvaged Plaza Hotel banisters

    The house had been converted in 1946 to a duplex on the lower floors with one apartment on each upper floor. In 2014 the artist Angel "Vlady" Oliveros reconverted it to a single-family house. To replace lost interior features he recycled pieces such as banisters from the Plaza Hotel and an earthenware soaking tub from the 1920s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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