Samuel Frost House

294 West 11th Street | West Village | built 1842

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The lot about 1940
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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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  1. 1842

    Samuel Frost's three-story Greek Revival house goes up at 294 West 11th Street

    The Greenwich Village Historic District report dates 294 West 11th Street to 1841-42 and names Samuel Frost as the owner it was built for. The brick house is three stories high, with a simplified Greek Revival entrance and small stone cornices above its window lintels. Its wrought-iron stoop railings have castings along the base and a curving pattern beneath the handrails, ending in slender cast-iron newel posts.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1850

    October 28

    Samuel Frost's ward committee backs its chairman in rejecting rival nominations

    Samuel Frost was a longtime member of the Ninth Ward Democratic Whigs and sat on its nominating committee in 1850. When splinter committees tried to submit candidates that fall, Frost and his fellow members met on October 28 and praised the ward chairman for rejecting those nominations. They accused the rivals of relying on disorderly mobs of non-residents and boys, and branded them Loco-Focos, a Democratic faction.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1925

    Pulp illustrator T. Victor Hall and his wife take rooms at 294 West 11th Street

    Thomas Victor Hall drew pen-and-ink illustrations for newspapers and magazines, and by 1915 his full-color work was appearing in periodicals such as Life. After marrying artist Josephine Helen Andre Maxine in Paris in 1923, he and his wife took rooms at 294 West 11th Street two years later. They lived and worked here until 1930, and during those years he made his name illustrating pulp fiction.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1926

    Newlyweds Milton Avery and Sally Michel live on the top floor while he paints

    Painter Milton Avery and his wife, the illustrator Sally Michel Avery, lived on the top floor of 294 West 11th Street in the late 1920s. They married in 1926, and she worked as a freelance illustrator so he could devote himself to painting; their daughter, March, was born in 1932. The Phillips Collection bought its first Avery painting in 1929 and gave him a one-man exhibition in 1944.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2003

    January 9

    Sally Michel Avery, a top-floor resident here with Milton Avery, dies at 100

    Sally Michel Avery was born on July 27, 1902, and died on January 9, 2003, at the age of 100. She and Milton Avery eventually shared the top-floor apartment at 294 West 11th Street. Michel began as a freelance fashion illustrator for Macy's and contributed to the New York Times Magazine's Parent and Child column for more than two decades, supporting the household while pursuing her own painting. Her work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other museums.

    “They would eventually live together in the top floor apartment at 294 West 11th Street, Manhattan.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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