Van Winkle House

25 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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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. 1855

    Dr. Samuel Hubbard completes 25 West 9th Street as one of two identical houses

    Dr. Samuel T. Hubbard completed, in 1855, two identical four-story homes standing between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on Ninth Street, later numbered 25 and 27 West 9th Street, and they may have been designed by James Renwick Jr., who had owned the lots. The Anglo-Italianate houses have a rusticated base, planar stone upper floors, and a shared bracketed cornice whose fascia carries a guilloche pattern of flower-filled rosettes. Dr. Edward Henry Van Winkle, a physician from an old Dutch New York family, bought No. 25.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1900

    February

    Charles D. Fuller buys the Van Winkle house for $22,250

    In February 1900 Rev. Edward H. Van Winkle, son of Dr. Edward Henry Van Winkle, who had bought the house, sold the property at 25 West 9th Street; Charles D. Fuller paid $22,250. Fuller's daughter Sarah married Veryl Preston in January 1909, and the couple moved in with the Fullers. They had nine children between 1909 and 1919.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1939

    A 1939 renovation divides the house into apartments and flattens its upper-floor details

    A renovation completed in 1939 gave 25 West 9th Street two apartments per floor, and the 1855 details of the upper floors were almost certainly shaved flat at that time. A 1940 photograph shows the molded window frames gone. A later renovation, completed in 2005, created a triplex from the basement through the second floor, with one apartment on the third floor and two on the top level.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1992

    The Tinker Institute on International Law and Organizations uses an apartment in the house

    In 1992 the Tinker Institute on International Law and Organizations, organized that year, used apartment 3-B at 25 West 9th Street. A document from the preparatory committee for the 1992 United Nations environment and development conference described it as devoted to research, writing, and teaching about international law.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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