George H. Brodhead House

53 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1854

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

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1854
George Brodhead buys the new house and leases it to Roderick Sedgwick
George Hamilton Brodhead bought, as an investment in 1854, the newly built house that stood at 41 Ninth Street and became 53 West 9th Street in the 1868 renumbering. It was one of a row of five, two bays wide and set back from the street, in the Anglo-Italianate style. His first tenant was Roderick Sedgwick, whose daughters operated a private school in the house, which appeared in listings as the Misses Sedgwick's School. The Sedgwick family stayed until the spring of 1859.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1909
Newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane buys the house from the Brodhead estate
The New-York Tribune reported on May 9, 1909 that the George H. Brodhead estate had sold 53 West 9th Street to Arthur Brisbane, the first sale of the property in roughly fifty years. Brisbane, editor of William Randolph Hearst's Evening Journal since 1897, began renting the house to tenants in 1916. He kept leasing it until his death on December 25, 1936, and his estate sold it in 1938.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1920
Painter Guy Pène du Bois rents the house from Arthur Brisbane
Around 1920 Brisbane leased the house to the artist and art critic Guy Pène du Bois, who was married to Florence Sherman Duncan and had a daughter, Virginia. He painted An American Oriental in 1921 while living at the address. Du Bois and his wife moved to Paris in 1924.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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