Cornelia Jones Miller House
58 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1853
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1853
Builder Reuben R. Wood erects three matching Italianate houses on Ninth Street
Reuben R. Wood builds three houses at 10 through 14 Ninth Street, renumbered 54 to 58 West 9th Street in 1867. This house is the westernmost, originally No. 14. Each has a three-step porch with brownstone wingwalls, arched openings for the entrance and parlor windows, and a bracketed cornice, and a shared balcony runs across the second floor of all three.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1888
Dr. Edmund Carleton takes Lillian Russell to court over an unpaid $39 bill
Edmund Carleton, a homeopathic doctor who has owned 58 West 9th Street since 1878 and teaches at New York Medical College, treats the actress Lillian Russell in November 1882. After more than five years of notes and visits, he goes to court in 1888 to collect his $39 fee. Facing a public trial, Russell agrees to pay.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1896
Maria Miller marries Wilmot Townsend Cox in the parlor
Maria Duane Bleecker Miller marries the lawyer Wilmot Townsend Cox in the parlor of her mother's house at 58 West 9th Street. The New York Times describes guests from old New York families such as the Beekmans, Irvings and Townsends. The couple stay on in the house, which Maria inherits when her mother dies in 1901.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1924
A fire in a second-floor apartment kills two-year-old Donald Harrington
A fire starts in Dr. Ettore Perrone's second-floor apartment at 58 West 9th Street on the afternoon of February 17, 1924. Perrone carries his daughter out, believing that the neighbor's toddler is with his mother. Firemen find two-year-old Donald Harrington dead in his crib upstairs, in a house that has by then been divided into apartments.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Cornelia Jones Miller House - 58 West 9th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- The Italianate 1853 No. 58 West 9th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 58 West 9th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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