313 West 4th Street

West Village | built 1836

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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. 1836

    Mason Henry M. Perine builds the house on land that was once part of the Bayard farm

    William Bayard's 18th-century estate covered this part of Greenwich Village, and after his death in 1826 his heirs began selling it off. In April 1835 Charles W. Hawkins bought land along the newly named West Fourth Street, previously Asylum Street, and resold the lots within months. One buyer was the mason Henry M. Perine, who built a two-and-a-half-story brick house here, numbered 43 West Fourth until the street was renumbered in 1864.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1836

    No. 313, the prototype of its Greek Revival row, keeps its original low attic

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    The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls No. 313 the prototype of the ten-house row of 1836 and probably one of its best preserved houses. Along with Nos. 303 and 309 it still has its original low attic story, while most of the row was later raised to three full stories. Its stoop railings keep the original graceful curving wrought-iron design with acanthus ornament around a central garland.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1904

    A couple on a second honeymoon die of gas leaking in their rented room

    In October 1904 the house was a boarding house run by a Mrs. Borden. On a Friday a couple in their middle years, James O'Neill and his wife, asked for a room, saying half-laughingly that they were on a second honeymoon, and planned a week of sightseeing. On Sunday they did not come down for breakfast, and Mrs. Borden found them dead in their rooms, killed in their sleep because a gas valve had not been fully closed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1927

    A renovation adds a basement tea room and apartments without kitchens

    In 1927 the house underwent a renovation that put a tea room in the basement and what were called non-housekeeping apartments, with no kitchens, on the floors above. That arrangement continued until 1968, when the old tea room became an art studio and gallery and the upper floors were reorganized into one apartment on the parlor floor and two on each floor above.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2006

    February

    The basement studio hosts one-person shows, including Anne-Marie Schneider's debut

    In the early 2000s the former tea room, by then an art studio, served as the gallery of the British artist Fiona Banner. It regularly staged one-person exhibitions, among them French artist Anne-Marie Schneider's debut in February 2006. In 2018 a gut renovation turned the whole house back into a single-family home, although the 1836 exterior is remarkably well preserved.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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