Jeremiah Pangburn House

76 Perry Street | West Village | built 1866

Open on the map4 entries

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. 1866

    Jeremiah Pangburn builds No. 76, the prototype of a Robert Mook brownstone row

    Robert Mook designed a row of conservative French Second Empire brownstones on this block: Nos. 74 and 76 in 1866 and No. 70 in 1867. No. 76 went up late in 1866 for Jeremiah Pangburn, the main developer of the Van Nest block, who made his home in it when it was numbered 66. It has a high stoop with polygonal newel posts crowned by spheres and an arched-pediment doorway on carved console brackets; Pangburn's widow Margaret stayed until 1901.

    “…for Jeremiah Pangburn, chief developer of the Van Nest block…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1886

    Pangburn testifies for an elevated railroad, then concedes it would hurt his house

    In 1886 Jeremiah Pangburn took the stand in support of a planned elevated railroad on Greenwich Street. The lawyer for the property owners suing to stop it asked whether a double-track elevated line would damage the rental value of Pangburn's own house on Perry Street. Pangburn answered that it would.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1900

    May 18

    Real estate developer Jeremiah Pangburn dies at home aged 74

    Jeremiah Pangburn died in the house on May 18, 1900, at 74. Born in New York in 1826, he had developed much of the former Abraham Van Nest estate, brokered bank and insurance stocks, and served as a director of the West Side Savings Bank. His heirs sold the house in 1901 to the family of Walter Logan.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1958

    January

    The last parlor funeral is held for Caroline Daisy Logan

    The Walter Logan family, who bought the house in 1901, stayed for decades. After Walter's death his widow Caroline Holtz Logan lived on here with their daughter and died in her bedroom in 1933. The funeral of that daughter, Caroline Daisy Logan, in January 1958 was the last held in the parlor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

Nearby

All 1,156 buildings with stories in West Village