462 Avenue of the Americas

also 77 West 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1910

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.

1842
James Marsh builds twin houses at Sixth Avenue and 11th Street
James Marsh started two matching brick houses on the northeast corner at 11th Street and Sixth Avenue in 1841 and finished them the next year. Each was three stories tall with a store at street level. The corner shop opened as the Solomon & Lawrence grocery.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1854
George Quimby buys the corner grocery and turns it into a hardware store
George Quimby bought the corner grocery in 1854 and ran it while living upstairs. In 1857 he brought in his son, George Jr., and the shop became the hardware store George Quimby & Son. The younger Quimby was drafted into the Union Army on March 17, 1865, and the family left the space in 1890.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1909
Author Henry Harrison Lewis lives in an upstairs apartment
By 1909 author Henry Harrison Lewis and his wife were living in the upper part of the building. A magazine writer since 1898, he had been sent to Cuba by McClure's during the Spanish-American War and kept writing adventure stories for boys. Daytonian counts books published in 1902, 1903, and 1907 among those he wrote at this address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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