83 Washington Place

also 83 West Washington Plce | Greenwich Village | built 1899

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.

1899
Quimby & Browne design a new Federal-revival apartment house
Developer Blakeslee Barnes buys and demolishes the old residence on the lot and hires the little-known firm Quimby & Browne for a five-story apartment building, finished in 1899. The architects try to blend it with the neighborhood, giving it a stone portico on a brownstone stoop and paneled lintels modeled on the Federal houses of the 1820s and 1830s. In June 1900 Barnes transfers the finished building to Margarette P. Barnes for a recorded $38,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1902
October
Journalist Lindsay Denison receives a personal letter from President Roosevelt
Lindsay Denison, a journalist living at No. 83, follows Theodore Roosevelt across the country during his 1900 campaign. On October 18, 1902, with Roosevelt in the White House, the president writes him a letter praising two of his articles in Everybody's Magazine. Denison is one of several newspaper and magazine men, among them Charles Lincoln Andrews, publisher of The Nation, and later its editor Harold deWolf Fuller, who live in the building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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