Samuel P. Archer House

599 Hudson Street | also 16 Abingdon Square | West Village | built 1905

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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. 1839

    Samuel P. Archer builds a Greek Revival house on Abingdon Square

    Samuel P. Archer built a 28-foot-wide Greek Revival house at 16 Abingdon Square, also known as 599 Hudson Street, facing the park the Common Council created in 1812 from a leftover triangular plot. It stood three and a half stories above an English basement, with stoop ironwork wrapped around the newels. Its attic windows sat in a brownstone fascia rather than the usual wooden one.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1884

    The Greenwich Literary Society leases the former Archer house

    After Henry Corse moved his family to Jane Street in 1884, he leased the house to the Greenwich Literary Society. An 1887 dictionary said the club combined the features of a social club with those of a literary and dramatic association. The house had earlier been a boarding house and Corse's home and real estate office.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1889

    Political clubs take over the house through the 1890s

    By spring 1889 the house was headquarters of the Ninth Ward Pioneer Corps, a Republican group, whose bicycle club formed in 1891. The corps left in 1893, and the anti-Tammany Old State Democracy of the Ninth Assembly District leased the house through 1899. In 1900 the Republic Club of the 7th District rented it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1931

    A renovation turns the house into a club with an upstairs duplex

    A 1931 renovation made the basement through the second floor a club, and the top two floors a duplex. The Jeffersonian Club of the Third Assembly District used the club space, and Thomas J. Culkin and his family lived upstairs. The club stayed through 1954, and a renovation the next year divided the building into apartments.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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