Ogden Hoffman House

47 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1854

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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. 1854

    Thomas W. Strong builds the house, and attorney Ogden Hoffman moves in

    Publisher and developer Thomas W. Strong completes a row of Anglo-Italianate houses in 1854, including the 28-foot-wide, brownstone-faced No. 35 Ninth Street, later renumbered 47 West 9th Street. Attorney and politician Ogden Hoffman makes it his home, the same year he is appointed state attorney general.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1856

    May 2

    Ogden Hoffman dies in his West 9th Street house

    Hoffman, a former state assemblyman and U.S. congressman, falls ill on April 27, 1856, and dies five days later in the house, with the New York Times giving the cause as "congestion of the lungs." His funeral is held at the Church of the Annunciation on 14th Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    April 21

    Dr. Harlow Brooks, who discovered a bacillus that later killed him, buys the house

    Physician Harlow Brooks buys 47 West 9th Street from the Del Rio estate on April 21, 1920, for $42,500. In the early 1890s he had discovered, together with Dr. William H. Welch, the Welch bacillus, and in 1929 he is the physician looking after Marie Curie during her visit to New York. In 1936 Brooks dies at age 65 of an infection caused by that same bacillus.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2008

    The house sells for nearly $13 million and returns to single-family use

    The property sells in 2008 for just under $13 million, and the new owners begin a two-year renovation that returns it to a single-family home. In 2016 it comes on the market for $22 million.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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