74 Bank Street

West Village | built 1842

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1. 1842

   Baldwin & Mills complete 74 Bank Street, the last of four Greek Revival houses

   Number 74 dates from 1842, three years after work began on its neighbors, making it the last of the four houses that Andrew Lockwood put up with the carpenters Gabriel Baldwin and John Mills and the mason Amos Woodruff. The landmarks commission praised it, alongside No. 76, as among the handsomest on the block. A stoop leads to a narrow pedimented, canopied doorway.

   “No. 76 was built first, from 1839 to 1840, while No. 74 dates from 1842. Both houses are exceptionally well proportioned…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1869

   February 25

   Josephine Mills marries James Galway in the parlor and is mourned there ten months later

   John Mills's daughter Josie married James Galway at the house on February 25, 1869, and the couple moved in after their wedding trip. She died on December 2 that year at 27, and the funeral took place three days afterward in the same parlor. Galway stayed on with his in-laws and was involved in the Goshen Park trotting track, buying and selling horses.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1874

   March

   The house becomes a clothing drop-off point for the poor after the Panic of 1873

   During the cold, hungry winter after the Financial Panic of 1873, drop-off points for donated clothing were set up around the city. James Galway, who sat on the 9th Ward's District Visiting Committee, helped with the drive. Anyone who found the Charles Street police station out of the way could leave garments at this house instead. The Herald reported on March 13, 1874 that the soup kitchens were crowded every day.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1882

   March

   Court officer Robert Lindsay buys the house and likely adds the cast-metal door hood

   In March 1882 Robert Lindsay bought the house from Jane Mills for $9,565. Lindsay, born in 1832, had been a Court of General Sessions officer from 1862, and probably added the neo-Grec cast-metal hood over the entrance. A stroke felled him on the morning of February 6, 1892, and he never woke, dying that afternoon at 60.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 1923

   A tenant writes to a newspaper to pan Nazimova's film Salome

   In 1920 Flora H. Haggard bought the house and had it renovated into studio apartments, at a reported cost of $15,000. One 1923 tenant, self-appointed film critic Everett Douglas, wrote to the Morning Telegraph complaining that reviewers had been too befuddled by Alla Nazimova's silent film Salome to call it silly and dull.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1842 John Mills House - 74 Bank StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 74 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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