Joseph Britton House

43 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1857

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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. 1857

    Ice company partner Joseph Britton builds an Anglo-Italianate house on West 9th Street

    Joseph Britton, a Knickerbocker Ice Company partner and alderman, begins his house at 32 Ninth Street in 1856 and completes it in 1857. The 26-foot-wide Anglo-Italianate residence has a flat brownstone base with three arched openings and upper floors of red brick trimmed in brownstone. Britton lives there with his wife, Mary, and their children, Eugene and Adeline.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1885

    November 6

    Joseph Britton dies in the West 9th Street house he built

    Joseph Britton dies in the house on November 6, 1885, at age 87, and his funeral is held in the parlor on November 8. His children Eugene and Adeline, who received title from their mother the year before, sell the property on November 19, 1886, to attorney Frank Lazarus and his wife, Alice, for $24,400.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1914

    Cleveland Moffett has the rowhouse converted into apartments

    Journalist and playwright Cleveland Moffett buys the house in 1905 and, in 1914, commissions the firm Pepe & Brother to alter it into apartments. The brownstone detailing and the iron balcony may have been removed during this work, which leaves the facade less distinctive.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1917

    Artist Edward Pierce Nagel takes an apartment in the house

    Edward Pierce Nagel, an artist born in Revere, Massachusetts, in 1893, is a tenant in the converted house in 1917. A Harvard graduate and the stepson of sculptor Gaston Lachaise, he shows work that year at the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. He remains in his apartment until around 1921.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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