Robert Bayard House

83 Jane Street | West Village | built 1854

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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. 1835

    April

    Francis Cutting auctions off 175 lots from the old Bayard estate

    Jane Street began as a country lane dividing the Bayard and Ludlow estates, with the Bayard land lying to the north. In 1833 the heirs of William Bayard let go of the family house and most of the land, selling to Francis B. Cutting for roughly $50,000. In April 1835 Cutting divided the property into 175 building lots and sold them at auction for $225,000, and the Bayard mansion was demolished. No. 83 later rose on the Bayard side of the street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1854

    Robert Bayard, youngest son of William Bayard, completes an Anglo-Italianate house at No. 83

    Robert Bayard began the four-story brick house in 1853 for himself and his wife Elizabeth McEvers, on the Bayard side of Jane Street. Finished a year later, it is set apart from its neighbors by a cast-iron balcony spanning the second floor and by an entrance at sidewalk level rather than atop a stoop. It sits opposite the well-known No. 22.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1955

    Rare-book dealer F. Thomas Heller lives in the house in the 1950s and 1960s

    After the house was converted to apartments in 1937, F. Thomas Heller lived at No. 83 from the mid-1950s into the 1960s. Heller had a national reputation as a dealer in rare and antique books.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1999

    The house sells for $2.45 million under a newspaper headline about Hamilton's deathbed

    The owners put No. 83 up for sale in 1998 at $2.6 million, and it changed hands a year later for $2.45 million. The New York Observer headlined its report "Alexander Hamilton's Deathbed," although Hamilton was taken in 1804 to the older Bayard house, which no longer stood. The buyers converted the house, by then split into a duplex and two apartments, back into a single-family home.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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