3 East 10th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1890

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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. 1890

    Martha Townsend and Eva Coe build matching row houses at 3 and 5 East 10th Street

    Martha Rosalind Coe Townsend and Eva Johnston Coe started building, in 1890, a pair of 24-foot-wide, four-story houses designed by George E. Harney. Eva settled into No. 5 with her husband, Henry E. Coe, while No. 3 was rented out. One historian calls the houses Romanesque in tradition, yet the only nod to that style is a pair of carved bosses on each second-floor cornice.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1892

    Newlyweds Clarence and Roxana Bowen lease 3 East 10th Street

    Clarence Winthrop Bowen, a Yale graduate of 1873 who had inherited the newspaper The Independent from his father, leased the house with his bride, Roxana Atwater Wentworth. The couple summered at the family's Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, and their only child, also named Roxana, was born in 1895. The Bowens stayed through the winter season of 1901.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1923

    July 4

    Burglars ransack Magistrate Corrigan's house after his bootlegging charges

    Magistrate Joseph Edward Corrigan, who had leased 3 East 10th Street since 1918, charged Police Commissioner Richard Enright and other officials with running a bootleg operation in spring 1923. When Corrigan and his wife returned on the night of July 4, they found the house ransacked by burglars who were after papers rather than valuables. Corrigan lived in the house until his death in 1935.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1938

    June

    Park Madison Realty leases the house to convert it into ten small apartments

    In June 1938 the house was leased to Park Madison Realty Corporation, which planned to convert it into ten two-room suites. The renovation, finished in 1940, put two apartments on each floor. A plain, windowless fifth floor with two more apartments was added in 1954.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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