Saul Alley House

6 Washington Square North | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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1. 1833

   Quaker merchant Saul Alley moves into a new Greek Revival mansion

   Merchants John Johnston, John Morrison, and James Boorman leased land from Sailors' Snug Harbor and built a row of Greek Revival mansions on the north side of Washington Square, finished in 1833. Johnston built Nos. 6 and 7 and sold the leasehold of No. 6 to Saul Alley, a Quaker merchant and politician. The house was 27 feet wide and three stories tall with an attic, and it had a marble stoop leading to a portico with Doric columns. Alley's family held the lease until his widow Mary's death in 1868.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1868

   Goold Hoyt Redmond buys the mansion's leasehold for $36,000

   After the Alley family's lease was auctioned in April 1868, millionaire bachelor Goold Hoyt Redmond bought it for $36,000. His sisters Emily, Matilda, and Frances lived in the house with him. Matilda married railroad figure Richard James Cross in 1872 and died in 1883, and Cross later married her sister Annie Redmond. Emily Redmond stayed on with the Cross family and died at age 90 in January 1934.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1883

   June

   Architect G. L. Baxter adds a second story to the rear dining room

   Goold Redmond hired architect G. L. Baxter in June 1881 to add a one-story rear extension holding a new dining room. In June 1883, as the household grew to include the Cross family, he brought Baxter back to put a second story with more bedrooms on top of it. The 1881 extension cost about $42,000 in 2019 dollars.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1950

   New York University acquires the Alley mansion for office space

   Industrialist John Reynolds Morron, head of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, leased the house from 1919. Before moving in, he hired architect James Gamble Rogers to add an elevator and a two-story brick studio at the rear. Morron died in June 1950, and New York University acquired the house later that year. The university gently renovated it for offices.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1833 Saul Alley Mansion - 6 Washington Square NorthDaytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 6 Washington Square NorthVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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