Paul Taylor House

27 Vandam Street | Hudson Square | built 1834

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1. 1834

   Daniel Turner builds a row of four houses on Vandam Street on Trinity Church land

   Turner built four brick homes on the north side of Vandam between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in 1834. The land belonged to Trinity Church, and John Jacob Astor I, who acquired the former Richmond Hill estate, paid the lease until May 1, 1864. No. 27 is two and a half stories of brick over a brownstone basement, with two dormers.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1897

   December

   Coal dealer Cornelius McMonagle, the house's owner, takes over the Youmans Coal Company

   McMonagle, who owned the house and was an Inspector of Common Schools in 1896, had worked for the coal and wood firm since about 1877, and he took it over from founder E. W. Youmans in December 1897. It had four locations. He died on June 25, 1898, and his widow Margaret ran the company, until creditors sued in 1900 over her sale of its stock and wagons to her son.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1923

   Evans Clark and Freda Kirchwey, managing editor of The Nation, buy the house

   After William Sloane Coffin converted the house to a two-family dwelling in 1920, he sold it in 1923 to Evans Clark, a New York Times staffer, and his wife Freda Kirchwey, who kept her maiden name. Kirchwey, a Barnard graduate, was managing editor of The Nation. The other half of the house was home to retired Colonel Samuel Reber and his son Miles, a West Point graduate that year.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1970

   Choreographer Paul Taylor owns the house from about 1970 to 2009

   Dance company founder Paul Taylor, whose troupe began in 1958 and who eventually made 147 pieces, owned the house from around 1970. George Wilson, once his partner and a lifelong friend, lived with him until Wilson's death in 2004. Taylor sold the house in 2009 and put the proceeds into his dance company.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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