Adolphe LeMoyne House

62 West 11th Street | also 64 West 11th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1855

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.

1853
James Gifford builds four houses, and No. 62 becomes the LeMoyne family home
Wall Street broker James N. Gifford began four brick houses on West 11th Street in 1853, with Italianate cornices and doorways that blended Italianate and Greek Revival details. The easternmost, No. 62, became the home of Adolphe LeMoyne, a cotton merchant who had come from France in 1829 and co-founded the firm LeMoyne & Bell. He lived here with his wife Henrietta and their four children. By 1864 the firm was LeMoyne & Sons, and its principal business was shipping cotton to France.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1862
February 20
Henrietta LeMoyne marries Edward Heydecker at the house
On February 20, 1862, Adolphe LeMoyne's daughter Henrietta married Edward Bonaffe Heydecker at 62 West 11th Street. Samuel Cooke, rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, performed the ceremony. The LeMoyne family had left the house by 1879, when Mary Lenox Kennedy lived there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1985
Batons restaurant opens in the basement with a celebrity clientele
From 1985 through 1987 the basement level held Batons, which The New York Times called a California-style American restaurant. A December 31, 1985 item in the Times said Calvin Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Sean Penn, and Madonna had recently eaten there. The dining room was decorated in black and white.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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