Julien Tappan Davies House

38 West 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1841

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1840
Builders erect a row of Greek Revival houses on West 11th Street
Mason James Harriot, carpenter Erastus Freeman, and builder Andrew Lockwood begin an 11-house row in 1840 on West 11th Street's south side, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and it is completed in 1841. This house, first numbered 146 Eleventh Street, is a two-and-a-half-story Greek Revival home over a brownstone basement. It is renumbered 38 West 11th Street in 1853.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1898
Attorney Julien Tappan Davies leases the house
Julien Tappan Davies, then 28, moves into 38 West 11th Street in 1898 as a lessee. He is an attorney with his father's firm, Davies, Stone & Auerbach, a Columbia graduate who went on to Harvard Law School, and a nephew of the millionaire Bradley Martin. His daughter, also named Marie Rose, is born on September 1 of that year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1901
A. W. Stevenson has the house remodeled with Edwardian details
Owner A. W. Stevenson hires the architectural firm Paust & Schroeder in 1901 to alter 38 West 11th Street, according to the New York Times. The two parlor-floor windows are replaced with a modified Palladian window of elliptical shape, carved with bellflowers and glazed with leaded glass. The third floor may have been raised to full height at the same time.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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