64 Washington Mews

also 4 East 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1833

    A brick stable is built at 64 Washington Mews for Thomas Suffern's house on the square

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report says this began in 1833 as a two-story brick stable with a slate roof, built for Thomas Suffern's house at 11 Washington Square. Its neighbors on the same side, Nos. 54 to 62, were likewise built as stables in 1833 and 1834 for Washington Square North residents whose yards reached across the mews.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1836

    Robert B. Atterbury has the house at 4 East Eighth Street built as his residence

    No. 4 East Eighth Street, behind which this mews building stands, was erected in 1836 for Robert B. Atterbury to live in. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it an exception on a block otherwise built in the early 1830s and remodeled in 1916. By the time of its 1969 report the stoop was gone, and a bookstore entered at street level occupied the ground floor.

    “No. 4 was built for Robert B. Atterbury as his residence.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1855

    Agnes Suffern marries Edward Tailer, and the couple live behind her father's stable at 4 East Eighth Street

    In 1855 Agnes Suffern, daughter of the merchant Thomas Suffern, married the cotton merchant and importer Edward N. Tailer Jr. at her family's home, 11 Washington Square North. For a while the couple lived at 4 East Eighth Street, which backed onto her father's 1833 stable at 64 Washington Mews. They returned to No. 11 in 1874, and both died there.

    “In No. 11 in 1855 their daughter Agnes Suffern was married to Edward N. Tailer, Jr. Their residence for a while was No. 4 East Eighth Street, behind the Sufferns' stable…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1909

    The Suffern stable becomes a garage in 1909 and a Neo-Georgian house in 1941

    In 1909 interior alterations for Thomas Suffern's grandson, Thomas Suffern Tailer, converted the old stable into a garage. A thorough remodeling in 1941 turned it into a dwelling, and the present Neo-Georgian look, with quoins and blind arches at the second floor, dates from that work. The city's report counts it among the more attractive houses on the mews.

    “…it was turned into a garage in 1909 by interior changes made for his grandson, Thomas Suffern Tailer. It was extensively remodeled in 1941…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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