Lockwood de Forest House

7 East 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1887

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

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1887
Lockwood de Forest builds a townhouse carved with Indian teakwood
The decorator and former Tiffany partner worked with architect Van Campen Taylor to face the five-story house in teakwood carving he had commissioned from craftsman Muggunbhai Hutheesing's studio in India. A projecting oriel window on brackets carved with florals, animals and geometric designs made the exterior unlike any other in the city.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1994
NYU buys the house for a Jewish student center
A $2.5 million gift from Edgar M. Bronfman funded the university's purchase of the house, more than seventy years after de Forest had left it for Santa Barbara. A three-year restoration followed before it opened as the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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