28 Jones Street House
28 Jones Street | West Village | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1844
A plain Greek Revival row house is completed at 28 Jones Street in 1844
Number 28 is one of three nearly identical three-story red brick houses on the block, built with a low basement, a small stoop with wrought-iron railings, and a dentiled cornice. The building and its lot together cost about $3,700. On April 19, 1966, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the house, praising it as a modest, dignified residence worth treasuring.
“Twenty-eight Jones street with its lot cost about $3,700.”
- 1851
A boy from a tenant family at 28 Jones Street dies in a school stairway collapse
The house held several tenants, and the Mills family probably lived in the small house at the back of the lot. Young George Mills was a pupil at the Ninth Ward School on Greenwich Street. When a teacher suffered a stroke and a pupil shouted for water, other classrooms thought there was a fire; the stampeding children brought down the staircase, and 49 died, George among them.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1877
A visitor to the Warner family at 28 Jones Street vanishes on her way home and is never found
Mrs. Alfred Van Buren, who lived with her husband on East 126th Street in Harlem, called on the Warners one evening and left to catch a Third Avenue car home. The New York Herald reported that she was of sound mind and happily married, and her husband was anxious for her safety. Newspapers repeated the appeal for weeks, and the story traveled as far as Iowa, yet she was never found.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1906
Greenwich House turns the parlor floor of 28 Jones Street into a handicraft school
A social settlement founded next door at 26 Jones Street in 1902 bought number 28 in 1905. In October 1906 the city authorized a lease of the parlor floor for school use at $450 a year. Staffed by Greenwich House, the Greenwich Handicraft School taught lace-making and weaving to women and girls, and it had 80 pupils by 1908.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1921
Residents form a cooperative at 26 and 28 Jones Street, and a Survey magazine editor moves in
After Greenwich House moved to Barrow Street in 1917, numbers 26 and 28 Jones Street were incorporated in 1921 as Greenwich House Co-operative Apartments. Around 1922 the tenants included Arthur Piper, managing editor of The Survey, a twice-monthly social-work magazine, and treasurer of its monthly, Survey Graphic, plus Bryn Mawr graduate Katharine Fowler Pettit and her husband.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1982
Playwright and publisher Tony Buttitta lives at 28 Jones Street and writes two memoirs
Born in Louisiana in 1907, Buttitta published plays in the 1920s and in 1931 co-founded the literary magazine Contempo, which brought him into contact with Shaw, Faulkner, Pound and Sherwood Anderson. By 1982 he was living at 28 Jones Street. His memoir of the Federal Theatre, Uncle Sam Presents, appeared in 1982, and his memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Lost Summer, followed in 1987.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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- The 1844 Cornelius G. Vanriper House - 28 Jones StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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