Windsor Arms

61 West 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1925

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.

1926
Sugarman & Berger design the Tudor Gothic Windsor Arms
Developer Clement M. Merowit demolished four older houses at 61 through 67 West 9th Street in 1925 for a twelve-story apartment building called the Windsor Arms, expected to open in the fall of 1926. Sugarman & Berger gave it a Tudor and Gothic look, with a base of two shades of red brick, diamond-patterned diapering, and a two-story stone-framed entrance. Copper-clad oriels and four pointed gables add to the effect. The apartments had three to five rooms, and many had open fireplaces.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1937
Journalist Anna Peterson, a Windsor Arms resident, joins The New York Times
Anna Peterson, a Vassar graduate who lived at the Windsor Arms, joined The New York Times in 1937. She had earlier worked for the Associated Press, where she covered the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Before retiring three decades later she won several Publisher Awards for her writing, and she died in 1975 at age 76.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1968
Children's author Elizabeth Enright lives at the Windsor Arms
Elizabeth Enright, a niece of Frank Lloyd Wright, lived here with her husband, advertising executive Robert Gillham. A 1968 item in The Villager noted that she kept a writing garret at the Dakota and worked in summer in a converted railroad caboose in Wainscott, Long Island. She won the Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer, the outstanding children's book of 1938.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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