George F. Brush House
79 Greenwich Avenue | West Village | built 1900
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1840
Mason George F. Brush builds a three-story town house for himself on Greenwich Avenue
The landmark commission's district report says this small three-story dwelling was put up in 1840 for and by George F. Brush, a mason. It was one of two town houses built side by side, and the other was later replaced by the apartment house to the south. A store occupies the street level, and above it the lintels are simply corniced and the roof cornice is very plain.
“This small three-story dwelling, erected in 1840 for and by George F. Brush, mason, is one of two town houses built side by side.”
- 1880
A coroner's jury meets in undertaker Joseph Hanna's shop here over the death of Harriet Deutch
By 1880 the house held Joseph Hanna's undertaking shop, where many coroner's inquests were held when a death looked suspicious. On April 1 a jury viewed the body of Harriet Deutch, who had died suddenly at a boarding house on West 11th Street, and an autopsy pointed to opium poisoning. The jury found no foul play after her ex-husband's lawyer said she had been an opium eater for eight years.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1932
The Washington Square Review, a rebel student magazine suppressed at NYU, relocates here
In May 1932 the Washington Square Review, a magazine of rebel collegiate writing suppressed at New York University, took space at 79 Greenwich Avenue. According to a New York Times report quoted by Daytonian in Manhattan, an editorial board headed by editor Leonard Dal Negro resumed publication from the address.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1935
Future actor Arthur Anderson moves with his mother into a two-room apartment above a delicatessen
In the winter of 1935 the future actor Arthur Anderson and his mother Violet moved into a two-room apartment here, above a delicatessen, for $37.50 a month. Anderson recalled the move in his 2010 autobiography, An Actor's Odyssey. That year the whole property sold for $28,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The George F. Brush House -- No. 79 Greenwich AvenueDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 79 Greenwich AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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