52 West 10th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1831

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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. 1831

    Carpenter Abner Tucker has a Federal-style house built on West 10th Street

    Carpenter Abner Tucker has a two-story Federal house built at No. 52 in 1830-31. It has a dormered attic, Flemish-bond brick walls, paneled lintels, and a tall stoop with fine iron railings leading to an eight-paneled door under a glazed overlight.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1922

    Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies buys the house for a studio

    Sculptor and painter Frederick MacMonnies buys 52 West 10th Street in 1922 for $25,000, after the building has spent years as a stable. He converts the ground floor into his studio, with a spacious apartment above. He sculpts there until he dies on March 22, 1937.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1935

    Met Opera's Giulio Gatti-Casazza sits for a MacMonnies bust

    In 1935 Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, sits for five weeks in MacMonnies's studio. Paul D. Cravath had commissioned the bust, meant for the opera house foyer, after Gatti-Casazza announced his coming retirement.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1937

    Dancers open the avant-garde Dance Gallery in the former studio

    After MacMonnies dies in 1937, modern dancers Bruhs Mero and Felicia Sorel take over his studio and call it the Dance Gallery. They stage avant-garde routines there, including a weekly program called Sunday Nights at 9 that the Brooklyn Eagle describes in 1942. Sculptor Isamu Noguchi lives in the building for a period at the start of World War II, and sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione later uses the studio.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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