Naugle's Stable

271 West 10th Street | also 271 1/2 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1911

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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. 1911

    January 13

    David Naugle buys the lot and builds a three-story brick stable designed by Charles H. Richter

    On January 13, 1911, builder David Naugle bought the old 27-foot-wide building on this lot and planned a three-story stable. Architect Charles H. Richter filed plans for a brick and concrete building costing $8,000, with a wide carriage bay and hay-loft openings above. A manure pit was put in the rear yard.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1921

    July 26

    The Naugle company sells the stable, and David Walsh's trucking firm moves in

    The New-York Tribune announced on July 26, 1921 that the Naugle company had sold the building, by then called a three-story garage. The New York Herald identified the buyer a month afterward as David Walsh of D. Walsh Trucking & Rigging Corp. The ground floor held four motor trucks and the upper floors stayed stables, and painted signs on the brick advertised horses and trucks for hire and gasoline for sale. Walsh used it until 1935.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1968

    April

    Sculptors Hans Van de Bovenkamp and Bill Barrett share the former stable as studio space

    After the trucking firm left around 1966, the building was informally converted to studios and living space. Dutch-born sculptor Hans Van de Bovenkamp was here by 1968, when Times critic John Canaday visited and found his sheet-metal fountains ill-made, though he described the studio as kooky-cute, with a barber's chair. Abstract sculptor Bill Barrett shared the building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1998

    Actor Wesley Snipes buys the building, files conversion plans, then sells

    Eugene Tulchin, a Cooper Union art professor, bought the building in 1996, then sold it two years later to actor Wesley Snipes. Snipes filed plans to make it a single-family residence but withdrew them in 1999 and sold within the year. In 2005 the building sold for just under $15 million, and Landmarks-approved plans were filed to make it a private home.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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