Trowmart Inn

607 Hudson Street | also 793 Greenwich Street, 316 West 12th Street | West Village | built 1905

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1. 1906

   William R. H. Martin builds the Trowmart Inn for working women

   Clothier William R. H. Martin hired architect Ralph S. Townsend to design a six-story Colonial-style hotel of granite and brick trimmed with terra cotta, finished by April 1906. It housed up to 400 young women under 35 earning less than $12 a week, in 10-by-12-foot rooms, for $3 a week shared or $4 single. Martin named it for his late son Trowbridge, combining his first and last names.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1918

   The Army takes over the inn to house hospital nurses and attendants

   With the nearby Siegel-Cooper store converted into an Army base hospital, the U.S. government took over the Trowmart Inn. In October 1918 the New-York Tribune reported it would house the hospital's nurses and male attendants. The inn sat empty after the war ended.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1920

   John D. Rockefeller Jr. funds the inn's purchase as Laura Spelman Hall

   Still mourning his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, Rockefeller gave $300,000 in her memory to the YWCA to buy the inn and ease the housing shortage for working women. The building was renamed Laura Spelman Hall. Architect Katherine C. Budd renovated it into 258 rooms for what were now called business girls.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 2012

   The former nursing home becomes the Abingdon condominiums

   The building later became the Village Nursing Home, which moved to West Houston Street in 2011. A year later the structure had been converted into ten apartments, the smallest 3,200 square feet, under the name the Abingdon. One 8,400-square-foot residence was priced at about $20 million, and the original exterior remains unchanged.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1906 Trowmart Inn -- No. 607 Hudson StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• HOUSE OF MANY NAMES, Greenwich VillageForgotten New York
• A new co-op reveals a bit of old Hudson StreetEphemeral New York

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• 791 Greenwich Street1 entry
• 8 Bethune Street1 entry
• Samuel P. Archer House599 Hudson Street | 4 entries
• 10 Bethune Street1 entry
• Donnelly Brothers' Saloon building597 Hudson Street | 5 entries
• 797 Greenwich Street1 entry

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