Sherman-Dodge House

52 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1980

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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. 1848

    Dr. Austin Sherman builds an Anglo-Italianate house on Ninth Street

    Wealthy physician Austin Sherman, known for a patented medicine called All Healing Balsam and for dabbling in real estate, completes his rusticated brownstone-and-brick house in 1848 at what is then 13 Ninth Street. Sherman is stricken with paralysis, probably a stroke, in 1871 and dies on November 22, 1884.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1920

    February 4

    A fire kills Edith Livingston Hall Morgan and two daughters

    Shortly before 4:00 a.m. on February 4, 1920, smoke fills the house. Owner Edith Livingston Hall Morgan, who bought it in October 1915, rushes to the fourth floor to reach her daughters Ellen, 10, and Barbara, 14, and all three die. Morgan was the wife of William Forbes Morgan Jr.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1921

    Muralist William de Leftwich Dodge remakes the house into a studio home

    Muralist William de Leftwich Dodge buys the house in 1921, reported by the New-York Tribune as intended for his own use. His changes are transformative: a double-height studio at the former attic level, a five-paneled set of leaded casements on the second floor, and a recessed studio window with a balustraded balcony between terra-cotta medallions. Dodge lives there until his death in March 1935.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1936

    The Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts occupies the house

    From 1936 to 1938 painter and teacher Hans Hofmann runs his school in the former Dodge house, after earlier opening a summer school in Provincetown in 1934 and a year-round school on East 57th Street. A renovation completed in 1948 later turns the house into a duplex with one apartment on each upper floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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