William Mitchell Mansion

60 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1839

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1839
William Beach Lawrence completes three Greek Revival houses
In 1839 William Beach Lawrence finished three red-brick Greek Revival houses at what became 60 through 64 West 9th Street, each three stories tall on a rusticated English basement. The houses were 25 feet wide, with wide brownstone stoops. Dr. Benjamin William McCready, a founder of Bellevue Hospital, took the easternmost, now No. 60, and sold it to Judge William Mitchell in 1858.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1858
Judge William Mitchell moves in with his large family
William Mitchell, a presiding justice of the State Supreme Court, bought the house in 1858 and lived there with his wife Mary Leverich Penfold Berrien and their seven children. The youngest, John Murray Mitchell, was a newborn at the move and was elected to Congress in 1896 while living in the house. Their daughter Grace never married and lived there until her death in 1936.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1938
Architect Frederick S. Keeler converts the mansion into apartments and studios
Samuel Ferster bought the house from the Mitchell estate and then hired architect Frederick S. Keeler to convert it into apartments. The work, completed in 1938, removed the stoop, lowered the entrance to the basement level, and added a floor with artist's skylights. The New York Sun described the result as four apartments and two studios. The house was turned back into a single-family home in 2011.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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