Ardsley House

29 West 12th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1846

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.

1889
Architect Louis Adams replaces a bakery with a five-story flat building
In December 1888 architect Louis Adams paid $15,200 for a lot 25 feet wide at 29 West 12th Street, where the heirs of Laura A. Emmet were selling a three-story bakery building. Three months later he submitted plans for a five-story flat of brick and stone costing $20,000, and it was finished within the year. The plain facade has brown Flemish bond brick above a brownstone entry level, with delicate window frames and a bracketed cornice.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1890
Spring
The Reverend William Huckel and his family move into the new building
Rev. William M. Huckel, a board member of the Seamen's Church Institute, moved into 29 West 12th Street in the spring of 1890 with his wife Christiana and their adult son John Frederick Huckel, a publisher. John settled in Kansas around 1895 and later wrote several books on the Native peoples of the Southwest, including Navaho Sandpainting: The Huckel Collection.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1941
A 1941 renovation divides the building into 36 residential units
A 1941 renovation gave the first floor three apartments and two single-occupancy "class B" rooms, and each upper floor two apartments and six class B rooms. The Department of Buildings required that each such room hold one person. That layout gives the building 36 residential units.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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