66 West 10th Street

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

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1892
Architect George Keister designs twin apartment buildings for William Moore
William J. Moore buys the two brownstones at Nos. 66 and 68 West 10th Street, tears them down, and hires architect George Keister to design a matching pair of apartment buildings. Completed in 1892, the five-story twins have a heavy rusticated base that gives way to lighter brick upper floors trimmed in terra cotta.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1894
A tenant leaves No. 66 after finding brothels nearby on West 10th Street
Envelope manufacturer Benjamin B. McFadden moves his family into No. 66 in September 1894 and moves out the following April. He tells the press he left because of the number of disorderly houses on the street, including one next door. The block is otherwise still respectable, and the building keeps drawing well-off tenants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1944
A retrospective calls former resident Emil Ganso one of America's finest printmakers
The artist Emil Ganso lives and works at No. 66 during the 1930s. When his prints are shown in a 1944 retrospective, three years after he died, the exhibition ranks him among America's finest printmakers.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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