72 Bank Street

West Village | built 1839

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

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1839
Mason Amos Woodruff builds 72 Bank Street on land owned by Baldwin & Mills
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This Greek Revival brick house went up in 1839 as one of a row of four at Nos. 70-76, built on land that Andrew Lockwood bought in 1835. Taxes were first paid that year by the mason Amos Woodruff, although the land belonged to the carpenters Baldwin & Mills. The city's landmark report describes its Greek Revival doorway and singles out the urn-shaped finials on the curved newel posts of the stoop ironwork.
“Taxes for this dwelling were first paid in 1839 by Amos Woodruff but the land was owned by Baldwin & Mills at this time.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
Marion Tanner, widely seen as the inspiration for Auntie Mame, makes 72 Bank Street a bohemian meeting place
Marion Tanner and Lingard Loud, her husband and an editor and writer, moved to 72 Bank Street in the 1920s. Their home grew into a place where artists, bohemians and passers-by gathered. Her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III, who wrote as Patrick Dennis, created Auntie Mame, and Marion is generally acknowledged as the inspiration; she insisted until her death in 1985 that she was the real Mame.
Source: Village Preservation

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