Converted Stable at 33 Perry Street

33 Perry Street | West Village | built 1897

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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. 1863

    Dennis Quinn, living in an earlier house on the lot, joins a committee on draft exemptions

    In 1863 Dennis Quinn lived in a modest brick home at No. 33, an earlier building on this site. He was named to a committee of the Democratic Union Association formed to help laboring and poor men get exemption from the Civil War draft. His house was torn down three years later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1897

    Henry Andruss Jr. designs a Romanesque Revival stable that looks like a library

    The Landmarks Commission describes the 1897 stable, designed by Henry Andruss Jr. for Charles Pearsall, as a transitional Romanesque Revival building with brick quoins and a deep cornice on console brackets. In 1926 architect Harris V. Hartman converted it to four apartments, changing only the entrance and enlarging windows.

    “The very handsome stable had been designed by Henry Andruss, Jr. and built in 1897 for Charles Pearsall.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1925

    July

    St. John the Evangelist church buys the stable for its planned artists' colony

    The New York Times reported on July 14, 1925, that the church of St. John the Evangelist had purchased the stable. The church was buying Perry Street houses and taking down rear fences to form St. John's Colony, an artists' community with a shared garden. The stable was later converted to a private home, with Tudor-style diamond-paned casements and a large fireplace.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1928

    February

    A lawyer's family announces a society reception for a visiting English girl

    Lawyer Leslie Hepburn Buckler and his wife Elise lived in the converted stable. On February 29, 1928 Elise announced a March 11 reception for Barbara Buckler of England, who had been presented at the Court of St. James. Soon after, the Bucklers left for Virginia, where Leslie became a law professor, and Mrs. Guy Phelps Dodge and her daughters moved in.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1968

    Fashion executive Tom Fallon rents a spacious apartment and hosts Bill Blass

    Tom Fallon moved into a converted apartment in 1968 for $225 a month. His 20-by-20-foot living room could hold a few hundred people, he told The New York Times, and he once threw a dinner party for designer Bill Blass and friends that spilled into the garden.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1982

    Architect Carl Pucci buys the building and his family gradually fills it

    In the late 1970s St. John's began selling off its colony properties. Architect Carl Pucci bought No. 33 in 1982, and his extended family took over the apartments one by one. When Fallon left in 2005, just one apartment was still occupied by someone outside the Pucci family.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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