The Hampton

80 Perry Street | West Village | built 1887

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1. 1887

   Thom & Wilson design a ten-family apartment house with horseshoe arches for Joseph Schwarzler

   Architects Thom & Wilson designed this five-story brick apartment building for ten families, erected in 1887 for the developer Joseph Schwarzler. It has a stone basement and first floor, with blind horseshoe arches over the upper halves of the first-floor windows. The Landmarks Commission's 1969 report notes that this arch motif became widely popular in the 1890s.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1889

   April

   Developer Joseph Schwartzler's new apartment house is sold at auction after his bankruptcy

   Joseph Schwartzler replaced two stone-fronted houses with the apartment house in 1887, and the Real Estate Record noted its modern improvements. His speculations soon caught up with him, and he declared bankruptcy early in 1889. Nos. 80-82 Perry Street were sold at auction that April, and five houses he had built on East 97th Street were lost to creditors in July.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1916

   October 6

   A resident is fatally shot in a gangland attack on a Broome Street saloon

   Edward Belli, who lived here and worked as secretary to a vaudeville bicycle rider, was drinking with actors at the Italian Gardens saloon at 341 Broome Street on October 6. Gunmen burst in aiming at Dominico Pepo, a rival of a jailed gangster, and the saloon's owner, Giuseppe Verrazzano, was killed too. Belli, hit three times, identified one of the shooters from his hospital bed.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1955

   July

   Broadway actor Donald Cameron keeps his Perry Street apartment until his death

   Donald Cameron played leading roles opposite actresses including Peggy Wood and Eva Le Gallienne, was a silent-film leading man, and his Broadway credits included Hamlet with Maurice Evans, Peter Pan, My Sister Eileen and The Three Sisters. He retired in 1945 and spent much of his time in Connecticut, but he kept his apartment in this building until he died in July 1955.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The Hampton --Nos. 80-82 Perry StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• Then & Now photos: 80-82 Perry StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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