Agee studio building
33 Cornelia Street | West Village | built 1900
Open on the map3 entries
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.
- 1913
A blacksmith shop is built at the front of 33 Cornelia Street's lot
The small Utilitarian building in front was built in 1913 as a blacksmith shop, designed by Nicholas Serracino for Mary P. Zurla Bresciani. The owner Louis Musa converted it to a grocery store in 1954. Among its later owners was the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who sold it within a year and may never have lived there.
“…designed as a blacksmith shop by Nicholas Serracino for Mary P. Zurla Bresciani and con structed in 1913. In 1954, the blacksmith shop was converted into a grocery store…”
- 1932
Artist Alice Neel shares an apartment at 33 Cornelia Street with Kenneth Doolittle
In 1932 the artist Alice Neel lived at 33 Cornelia Street, sharing an apartment with Kenneth Doolittle. The rear building on the lot, three stories tall, housed four African-American families in the 1910 census and appears to have stood empty in 1920. By 1930 it was home to two white households of musicians and a singer.
- 1950
James Agee keeps a writing studio at 33 Cornelia Street for eleven years
Read more
The author James Agee had a writing studio at 33 Cornelia Street for eleven years, until the early 1950s. The lot was first developed around 1833, and a second house on it appears in the tax records from 1843.
Nearby
- Caffe Cino31 Cornelia Street | 12 entries
- 35 Cornelia Street2 entries
- Cornelia Street Cafe building29 Cornelia Street | 4 entries
- Zito's Bakery building259 Bleecker Street | 4 entries
- 257 Bleecker Street3 entries
- 265 Bleecker Street5 entries