Albert C. Zabriskie House

25 Charlton Street | also 23 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1827

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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. 1827

    James Marshall builds a house that mixes Federal and Greek Revival, extended over the side passage

    Marshall built No. 25 in 1826-27 as a three-story house over a basement. The doorway with paneled pilasters, sidelights and a leaded transom is Federal, while the low attic in place of dormers is Greek Revival. The house is 25 feet wide because it extends over the horse walk, the passage to the rear yard that most houses left open.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1907

    June 10

    The Abigail Free School and Kindergarten moves into the house

    Dr. Charles Pricelius Devare organized the Abigail Free School in 1889 for poor children aged 3 to 7, and it moved to 25 Charlton Street on June 10, 1907. According to the 1909 Charities Directory, it took children of any class or creed, fed and cleaned them, and taught them until they could enter public school, all free. Elisabeth Devare appears to have continued it here until about 1916.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1918

    Edna St. Vincent Millay and her sister Norma move into top-floor rooms

    In 1918 the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was 26, and her sister Norma took rooms on the top floor, renting from the painter Gardner Hale and his wife. Andrea Barnet's history of bohemian Greenwich Village says that when their mother and sister Kathleen joined them that summer, the flat soon became a Village gathering place. Millay left after her 1923 marriage, moving to 75-1/2 Bedford Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1922

    Newlyweds Lindesay and Ursula Parrott move in; her novel Ex-Wife later draws on the marriage

    Lindesay Parrott, a Newark Evening News reporter, and the future best-selling novelist Ursula Parrott settled here in 1922. Her 1929 novel Ex-Wife, based on their relationship, dealt with domestic abuse, drunkenness and divorce, subjects popular fiction usually avoided. The house had other writers then: by 1921, the author and suffragist Nancy Schoonmaker, who toured the country in 1920 for the League of Nations and in 1921 went to Geneva for women's organizations, lived here with her husband.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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