269 West 10th Street

West Village | built 1835

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1835
Widow Hannah Jenkins builds a Greek Revival house; a piano maker is a tenant
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Hannah Jenkins, a widow by the 1830s, had this house built around 1835, when the address was 169 Amos Street. She herself lived at 60 Spring Street. Grocer Benjamin B. Cooper bought the house in 1844 and lived in it for a few years before moving to Jersey City. His tenants included flour merchant Robert J. Randolph in 1849-53 and piano maker William H. Warner in 1853-56; Warner's widow stayed on in 1857.
“Hannah Jenkins, widowed by the 1830s, built this Greek Revival style house c. 1835 at No. 169 Amos Street (now No. 269 West 10th Street).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1866
Provisions merchant Philip Holzderber buys the house and lives here for fifteen years
In 1866 Philip J. Holzderber and his wife Louisa bought the house, and the couple lived here from 1871 to 1886. He and his brother ran a provisions firm next door at 702 Greenwich Street. Holzderber also owned a vinegar factory at 321 West 11th Street, which collapsed in 1873 while being converted into a tenement and killed seven workmen. The house got its neo-Grec door hood during his ownership, and he sold it in 1894.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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