50 West 10th Street

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.

1900
The former carriage house has become a private home by 1900
The three-story brick stable is altered in 1887 for James Boorman Johnston, who lives down the block, and by 1900 it has been converted into a residence. The designer Margaret Armstrong is living there that year. The AIA Guide later praises how the upper stories use brick as ornament as well as structure.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1965
May
Playwright Edward Albee buys the former carriage house for $120,000
The British Shakespearean actor Maurice Evans, who bought the house in 1949, sells it for $120,000 in May 1965 and Edward Albee moves in. Albee writes Tiny Alice and A Delicate Balance there, and the second of those plays wins him a Pulitzer Prize.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1968
Composer Jerry Herman buys the house from Edward Albee
Three years after buying it, Albee sells the house to the composer and lyricist Jerry Herman for $210,000. A 1968 item in New York magazine remarks that Herman is spending his earnings from Hello, Dolly! and Mame. He is the third theater figure in a row to live at the address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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