29 West 9th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1854

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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. 1854

    Builder Dennis McDermott raises three Anglo-Italianate houses, including No. 29

    Builder Dennis McDermott erected, in 1854 and 1855, a trio of Anglo-Italianate houses between Fifth and Sixth Avenues along the north side of West 9th Street, including what became No. 29. Each had a rusticated first floor, a full-width cast-iron balcony at the second-floor windows, and a bracketed cornice. Dr. William E. Parsons, a dentist the New York Times called one of the most prominent and wealthy in the city, bought No. 29 as an investment.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1935

    Architect William S. Gregory covers the house in stucco and strips its 1854 details

    In 1935 architect William S. Gregory, best known for designing churches, gave 29 West 9th Street a stucco veneer over its brick and brownstone. The 1854 lintels, sills, and cast-iron balcony were removed, a wall of steel casement windows replaced the second-floor windows, and a parapet with pipe-like tiles replaced the cornice. The basement, first, and second floors became a triplex, with two apartments each on the third and fourth floors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1962

    Maurice Sendak lives at 29 West 9th Street while writing Where the Wild Things Are

    Children's author Maurice Sendak lived at 29 West 9th Street from 1962 to 1972 with his partner, the psychoanalyst Eugene Glynn. While living there he wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are, which won the Caldecott award, as reported on March 10, 1964. He also wrote In the Night Kitchen, published in 1970, the year he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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