Peter R. Bonnett House

6 East 12th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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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. 1846

    May 23

    Grocer Peter Riker Bonnett completes a 25-foot Greek Revival house, and a son's funeral is held in its parlor

    Around 1846 grocer Peter Riker Bonnett, whose business stood at 202 Front Street, finished this 25-foot-wide Greek Revival house, nearly identical to its western neighbor. A wide stone stoop led to a portico of fluted columns with palm-leaf capitals, while foliate brackets hinted at the coming Italianate style. The family had barely settled in when their son John died on May 21, 1846, two months after his fourth birthday, and his funeral was held in the parlor on May 23.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1885

    The Young Women's Christian Association runs a sewing-work department from the house

    In 1881 the Rev. Philip A. H. Brown, who served as minister of St. John's Chapel, leased the house, and by 1885 the offices of the Young Women's Christian Association shared it with him. Its industrial department handed out sewing work to women who had to support themselves. In January 1886 the New-York Tribune said the rooms were too small for classes, and the officers met at a private house. The association then moved to larger quarters.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1904

    May 16

    Society wife Margaret Jones vanishes from the Morris Park races and turns up in a boarding house

    Margaret Jones, wife of society man Herman LeRoy Jones, lived here with his mother after a 1903 bankruptcy and her own breakdown. Released from a sanitarium in May 1904, she went to the Morris Park races on May 16 with her husband and millionaire Robert L. Cutting, and vanished from their box. That evening a boy brought a note on Brevoort Hotel stationery saying she meant to leave and earn her own living. On May 26 Jones traced her to a 22nd Street boarding house and brought her home.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1925

    Poet Joseph Campbell and Michael Walsh open a School of Irish Studies

    Joseph Campbell, a poet born in Belfast, and Michael Walsh founded the School of Irish Studies in the building in 1925. Its first courses covered Irish history from the earliest times to the present and Irish literature from the ancient hero-tales to the post-Joyce era. It also offered lectures on Irish language and art, and it operated here through 1927.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1948

    Art dealer Lou Pollack opens the Peridot Gallery for Abstract Expressionists

    Art dealer Lou Pollack launched the Peridot Gallery at No. 6 in 1948, a showcase for Abstract Expressionist and other avant-garde art. Village Preservation notes that the house later became home to the Abstract Expressionist painter Rosemarie Beck and her husband, the writer and editor Robert Phelps, and earlier housed the fashion designer Jessie Franklin Turner's workrooms and showrooms.

    Source: Village Preservation

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