Claudius B. Conant House

25 Stuyvesant Street | East Village | built 1861

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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. 1861

    James Renwick Jr. is credited with a narrow townhouse for Matthias Banta

    This narrow Anglo-Italianate townhouse is generally attributed to James Renwick Jr. and was completed in 1861 for developer Matthias Banta. Banta kept ownership and leased it first to Margaret Madden, who ran a boarding house and advertised in August 1861 that it had "all the modern improvements."

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1873

    Future anthropologist Alice Fletcher lives here and serves as a congress secretary

    Alice Cunningham Fletcher came to the household of hardware merchant Claudius Buchanan Conant as governess to his children and stayed with the family afterward. A newspaper in October 1873 named her at this address as secretary of the Woman's Congress. She became a leading anthropologist of Native American life and helped write the Dawes Act of 1887, which divided communal land among individual households.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1969

    The house becomes part of the St. Mark's Historic District

    New York City designated the St. Mark's Historic District in 1969, and 25 Stuyvesant Street is part of it. The 1861 townhouse has a rusticated light stone ground floor, a parlor floor with a wrought-iron balcony, and red-brick upper floors with light stone window surrounds.

    Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

  4. 2011

    Journalist Nina Munk buys the house with its 1861 interiors largely intact

    When the house was offered for sale in 2011, photographs showed its 1861 interiors remarkably intact, including a marble mantel and ornate ceiling plasterwork, and it had never been converted to apartments. Journalist and author Nina Munk bought it and sold it in 2016 for $6.5 million.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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