83 Horatio Street
West Village | built 1853
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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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- 1852
A toddler's death precedes the demolition of the earlier house on the lot
An earlier house stood on this lot in 1852. On April 6 of that year the two-year-old daughter of the engraver G. Frederick Ziegler, Ida, died after convulsions, and her funeral was held in the house three days later. Before the year was out the Ziegler house was torn down, and the developer Henry A. Nelson built the present house in its place.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1853
Henry A. Nelson builds a Greek Revival house with a side alley to the rear lot
The landmark report says Nelson, a real estate agent, built this three-story brick house in 1852-53 over a basement. It has a stoop with richly detailed wrought iron railings and a side alleyway entrance that formerly gave access to a small two-story outbuilding at the back of the lot. The report suspects the house was raised to gain attic ceiling height, since a large stretch of brick sits above the low attic windows.
“This dignified brick Greek Revival residence was built in 1852-53 for Henry A. Nelson, a real estate agent.”
- 1886
A river captain from No. 83 is arrested after keeping Swedish officers' uniforms
William Colwell, who lived here in 1886 and captained a small vessel on the North River, took Swedish officers of the warship Balder back to their ship on the night of March 31. His boat capsized, and the ship's crew pulled everyone out and lent the wet men dry uniforms. The Times reported on April 7 that the officers had not gotten them back, and that Colwell had been arrested on a larceny charge the day before.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1932
Abstract painter Alice Trumbull Mason moves into an apartment at No. 83
Alice Trumbull Mason and her husband, merchant seaman Warwood Mason, signed a lease in 1932, and their daughter Emily, later an abstract artist too, was born that year. Alice had turned to abstraction in 1929, and at the 1935 Washington Square art show she was the only abstractionist among 400 exhibitors. When she died in 1971, her studio held more than 200 paintings.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- 19th Century "Romance" -- No. 83 Horatio StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 83 Horatio StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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