69 Charles Street

West Village | built 1866

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

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1910
Sinclair Lewis moves into 10 Van Nest Place, now 69 Charles Street
The Minnesotan writer Sinclair Lewis lived here from 1910 to 1913, when the address was still 10 Van Nest Place. It was well before the novels that made his name, such as Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922).
Source: Forgotten New York
1910
Sinclair Lewis shares the house with two Yale friends and the poet Harry Kemp
While working as an editor at the Frederick A. Stokes publishing firm, Sinclair Lewis lived here with two Yale friends, George Soule and William Rose Benet, and the boarder Harry Kemp, the poet known as the Hobo Poet. Lewis published his early novel Aeroplane under the pen name Tom Graham while living at the address. Kemp later put him in an autobiography as a character named Red Flatman, whom Village bohemians dismiss as a small-town product.
Source: westviewnews.org

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