58 Horatio Street

West Village | built 1846

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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.

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  1. 1846

    No. 58 is the best-preserved of five Greek Revival houses built by Abraham Demarest

    The Ireland family owned the land until 1844, when it went to two cartmen, one of them Cornelius Ackerman, who made his home at No. 58. The builder Abraham Demarest then put up the row in 1845-46. When the 1969 designation report was written, No. 58 had a rusticated basement, a three-pane sidelit doorway, its original wrought-iron stoop railings and a dentiled cornice, and was described as the row's best-kept house.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1857

    Carpenter George W. Ford, later a builder of apartment houses, is living at 58 Horatio by 1857

    By 1857 No. 58 was the home of George W. Ford and his family. He listed himself as a carpenter with a shop on West 15th Street, and by 1861 he had a second business on Cedar Street, where he called himself a builder. He grew successful putting up houses and apartment buildings, mostly in the northern part of the city, and later sold the Horatio Street house for $9,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1912

    February

    Irish tenor and step dancer Jack Mulchy, a boarder at 58 Horatio, challenges New York to a dance contest

    Jack Mulchy arrived from Limerick in July 1910 and boarded at No. 58, among a number of chauffeurs and mechanics. Back home he had been a championship step dancer and an Irish tenor. In February 1912 he wrote to the Irish newspaper The Advocate offering to dance anyone in the city for any stake in jig, reel and hornpipe, provided the judges were Irish dancers themselves.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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