69 West 10th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1832

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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. 1832

    Widow Frances Nicholson completes a Federal-style house on West 10th Street

    Frances Nicholson, a widow, begins a house in 1831 and completes it in 1832, among the first small brick homes on this block. The 19-foot-wide house stands two and a half stories over an English basement, with a Federal doorway and two tall attic dormers. She keeps it only eight years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1839

    May

    Society for the Relief of Half-Orphan and Destitute Children moves in

    Society for the Relief of Half-Orphan and Destitute Children buys the Nicholson house in 1839 thanks to funds from James Bowman, and the children arrive that May. The charity looks after children who have lost one parent, so the surviving parent can keep earning and pay a small weekly amount for board.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1895

    Parkhurst Society evidence about the house helps bring down a police captain

    By the 1890s the former orphanage has become a brothel, and in May 1895 the Parkhurst Society lists it among the houses of assignation the police refuse to close. In June, Police Captain Joseph B. Eakins is tried for neglect of duty over such houses in his precinct. The trial ends his career.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1971

    The house is returned to a single-family home above a basement shop

    In 1971 the house becomes a single-family home again, for the first time since 1839, with a store in the basement. By then the basement and first floor had held shops for years, and the renovation turns the ground-floor show window into a picture window rather than restoring the parlor windows. Much of the Federal look still survives.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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