80 Washington Place

also 80 West Washington Plce | Greenwich 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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1838
William Berwick builds a Greek Revival house, and Herman LeRoy moves in
Builder William W. Berwick erects two identical Greek Revival houses on Washington Place in 1838, living in one and leasing the other to Herman LeRoy and his family. LeRoy, appointed consul-general for Holland in 1786, had co-founded the trading firm LeRoy, Bayard & Co. and served as president of the Bank of New York.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1908
Author Willa Cather moves in with editor Edith Lewis
Edith Lewis, an editor, is among the boarders at No. 80 when the author Willa Cather begins sharing her rooms in 1908. The pair stay together for almost forty years, until Cather dies in 1947.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1920
Architect Charles Volz remodels the house into apartments for Hamilton Abert
After John Philip Sousa signs a contract to buy the house and then transfers title to his son-in-law Hamilton Abert, Abert hires architect Charles Volz to turn it into apartments. Volz removes the stoop, lowers the entrance, and adds a fourth story. The work finishes in January 1920, and rents run from $900 to $1,500 a year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2013
A gut renovation by Clodagh Design returns the house to a single-family home
In 2013 No. 80 becomes a single-family home again after a gut renovation by Clodagh Design. In February 2024 it is sold after being listed for just under $20 million.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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