262 West 11th Street

West Village | built 1828

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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. 1828

    Sashmaker Lavinius C. Heroy builds a Flemish-bond house on Hammond Street, now 262 West 11th Street

    The house went up in 1828 for Lavinius C. Heroy, a sashmaker, as a two-story town house of Flemish bond brickwork. Landmarks Preservation Commission researchers note its Federal doorway, with slender fluted Ionic colonettes and a leaded transom. The commission records a restoration in 1920, and the house now stands four stories high, with paneled lintels at every floor, Italianate parlor windows and a brownstone veneer on the basement wall.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1891

    Post Office inspectors use a decoy letter to Annie Snodgrass to catch a thieving mail carrier

    In 1891 neighbors found that cash and checks mailed to them were vanishing. Post Office inspectors recruited Annie Snodgrass, a member of the family living here, as an accomplice and mailed her a decoy letter holding four marked dollar bills. The letter carrier was caught with it in his pocket, just before a planned vacation, and sat in jail awaiting the grand jury.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1909

    April 2

    French teacher and author Matilda Shaw is found dead in her locked room, among autographed Sarah Bernhardt photographs

    Matilda Shaw, a teacher of French and author who boarded here, died alone in a locked room; her doctor forced the door after her landlady got no answer. The New-York Tribune reported that she was said to be a cousin of Sarah Bernhardt, and the room held autographed photos of the actress and a letter from Theodore Roosevelt about her book La Frontiere. She had been preparing to travel to Scotland to claim a $100,000 inheritance.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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