71 Washington Place

also 71 West Washington Plce | Greenwich Village | built 1848

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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. 1848

    A Greek Revival house at 71 Washington Place is built for merchant H. Coleman

    A Greek Revival house is built at 71 Washington Place for merchant H. Coleman. For several decades, like many houses around Washington Square, it operates as a boarding house, with ads in the 1880s and 1890s stressing respectable gentlemen and references.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1916

    April

    Sculptor Rudulph Evans buys the house and has it remodeled

    In April, sculptor Rudulph Evans buys No. 71 from Frank J. Maguire and hires Robert Cowie, of William W. Bosworth's office, to remodel it. Cowie adds a set-back floor with a balcony and pergola, removes the stoop, and builds a two-story bay for Evans's duplex. Evans opens his studio with an exhibition in January 1918.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    January 27

    Architect Raymond Hood, later co-designer of the Chicago Tribune Tower, moves in

    Raymond M. Hood takes an apartment at No. 71 on January 27. Two years later he and John Mead Howells win the competition to design the Chicago Tribune Building, which brings him sudden acclaim. Other well-known figures also live in the remodeled house in these years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1925

    D. H. Lawrence stays with residents and calls the house 'arty'

    Nina Witt and her daughter Marion Bull, who share an apartment at No. 71, host D. H. Lawrence and his wife in 1925. On September 15 Lawrence writes to Dorothy Brett that it is a pleasant, smallish, arty house, with a cook named Albertina.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1958

    Photographer Diane Arbus and actress Ali MacGraw both live in the building

    Photographer Diane Arbus moves into No. 71 in 1958 with her husband Allan and their daughters. By then the building is full of celebrated residents, including actress Ali MacGraw on the second floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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