Samuel Holmes House

27 East 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1845

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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.

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  1. 1845

    Dry goods merchant Samuel Holmes completes his home on East 11th Street

    Samuel Holmes, who was in the dry goods business on John Street, completed a 26-foot-wide house at 43 11th Street, renumbered 27 in 1868, in 1845. The Greek Revival house has three and a half stories above a brownstone basement, ironwork fencing, a parlor-level balcony, and a pilastered doorway under a dentiled wooden cornice. Holmes and his family lived there until 1853, when they moved to Fifth Avenue.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1853

    Homeopathic physician Edward Bartlett buys the house after the Holmes family leaves

    When Samuel Holmes's family moved to Fifth Avenue in 1853, Dr. Edward Griffin Bartlett bought the house. A homeopathic physician born in New Hampshire in 1824, he had graduated from Yale College in 1846 and married Jane Ball in September 1850. They had eight children, and their only son, William, became an Episcopal priest.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1906

    Dr. John Travell leases the house and later treats victims of a 1918 explosion

    Frederick W. Whitridge bought the house in 1906 and leased it that year to Dr. John Willard Travell, a Troy, New York native, and his family. On December 16, 1918, six victims of an explosion at a dye plant on University Place were brought to Travell's office for treatment. His daughter Janet, who was five when the family moved in, became a physician who studied referred pain and trigger points, and she treated Senator John F. Kennedy in 1955.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1926

    The house is run as unofficial apartments

    By around 1926 the Whitridge family had left, and 27 East 11th Street was being operated as unofficial apartments. Around 1873 it had been a high-end boarding house whose residents included Felipe Zapata, Colombia's minister to the United States. The house was never officially converted and remains a single-family home.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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