57 Horatio Street

West Village | built 1848

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  1. 1848

    Carpenter Isaac Van Nostrand and mason John O'Donnell build mirror-image houses at Nos. 55 and 57

    In 1847 the carpenter Isaac Van Nostrand and the mason John O'Donnell bought two 20-foot lots from Elizabeth Lawrence, just east of Greenwich Street. They built a matching pair of three-story red-brick Greek Revival houses, and Van Nostrand moved his family into No. 57. The family rented rooms to boarders, mostly men in the building trades, and the family kept ownership of the house into the 1900s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1873

    The third floor of 57 Horatio is raised to full height and given an Italianate cornice

    Around 1873, when real estate agents began advertising rooms in the house as improved, the short third floor of this Greek Revival house was raised to a full story. An Italianate cornice with an elaborate fascia replaced the plain wooden one, and projecting cornices were added above the window lintels. The change made the house slightly taller than its original design.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1938

    57 Horatio is converted from a boarding house to apartments and loses its stoop

    By 1914 the house was again a boarding house, home to men in the waterfront trades, including brothers who ran an express business by the 23rd Street ferry landing and a tugboat worker. In 1938 it was divided into apartments, one each in the basement and parlor level and two each on the top floors. The stoop came off, and the entrance dropped to the old basement level, a few steps under the sidewalk.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1959

    Television and stage director Stevenson Phillips lives at 57 Horatio Street

    Television and stage director Stevenson Phillips was living in the building in 1959, the year he was hired to stage the Broadway play The American. By the mid-1980s another resident, the artist Eva Ettisch, had settled here and was active in Greenwich Village for years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2016

    New owners restore the street front of 57 Horatio to its nineteenth-century look

    Around 2016 the house was bought by owners who hired Andrew Wilkinson Architects to return the facade to an earlier appearance. A new stoop was fabricated and paneled double doors were installed beneath a projecting lintel, so the sunken basement entrance of 1938 gave way to a stoop again. The building now holds two duplex residences.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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