48 West 10th Street

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

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1830
A Federal-style brick house rises on West 10th Street
West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues is lined with brick Federal houses throughout the 1830s and 1840s, and No. 48 is a small one among them. By 1871 the little house is decidedly out of fashion architecturally.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1871
Sarah Charlotte Clarke modernizes the old Federal house
In 1871 owner Sarah Charlotte Clarke, a socialite and dressmaker, hires architect Daniell Tyrrell to renovate the out-of-date house. He adds paneled double entrance doors, extends the parlor-floor windows, swaps the Federal ironwork for heavier Victorian railings and installs a bracketed cornice. A mansard roof tops the update.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1950
Albert Einstein's son-in-law lives in the house
Dr. Dimitri Marianoff, described as the son-in-law of Albert Einstein, is living at 48 West 10th Street in 1950. Earlier, Romeyn Park Benjamin, brother-in-law of the tenor Enrico Caruso, lived there by 1927 and died in the house on December 7, 1939, aged 46.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1962
The house is divided into apartments, one family to a floor
In 1962 the house is divided into apartments with one family on each floor. Earlier residents included Dr. Eben M. Flagg, who ran his practice from the first floor in 1880, and Marguerite Pumpelly Smyth, whose home was a meeting place for followers of 'Abdu'l-Baha before she moved on by the late 1940s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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