6 East 8th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1930

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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. 1834

    John T. Gilchrist, a commission merchant, has Nos. 6 and 8 East 8th Street built side by side

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    The block front on the south side of East 8th Street was land owned by Sailors' Snug Harbor, which leased it to individuals who put up houses in the early 1830s. In 1834 and 1835 the merchant John T. Gilchrist, senior member of a family firm, had the adjoining houses at Nos. 6 and 8 built. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report reads them as investments, because Gilchrist's own home stood farther down the same street.

    “Each house was erected for a different person, except Nos. 6 and 8 which were built for John T. Gilchrist, a commission merchant…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1916

    Sailors' Snug Harbor has Maynicke & Franke convert Nos. 6 and 8 East 8th Street into apartments

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    When the 21-year leases ran out, the landowner Sailors' Snug Harbor remodeled the old houses at Nos. 6 and 8 East 8th Street for apartment use in 1916. The work was designed by the firm of Maynicke & Franke, with Victor Fox overseeing it. The pair got smooth, light-colored stucco fronts, a shared stair tower with a blind-arched door, steeply pitched roofs with studio skylights, and decorative tile plaques set into the walls.

    “Nos. 6 and 8 and Nos. 12 to 26, including the house at the corner of University Place, were remodeled in 1916 for conversion into apartments…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1920

    The artist Mary Turlay Robinson lives at No. 8 East 8th Street in the early 1920s

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report records that the artist Mary Turlay Robinson made her home at No. 8 East 8th Street in the early 1920s. The house had been converted into apartments with studio skylights in 1916, part of a row that the report describes as unique to Greenwich Village.

    “The artist, Mary Turlay Robinson, lived at No. 8 in the early Nineteen-twenties.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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