Louis Peugnet House

9 Bank Street | West Village | built 1857

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The lot about 1940
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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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  1. 1836

    April 5

    Louis Peugnet, a Napoleonic officer turned schoolmaster, buys land along Bank Street

    Baron Louis Desire Peugnet, born in 1792, joined Napoleon's army in 1813 and was wounded at Waterloo. Condemned to death for his part in an 1821 military conspiracy, he and his brother Hyacinthe fled to America. The brothers bought land along Bank Street on April 5, 1836, and opened a school that taught fencing, among other subjects. Its graduates included the future Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard. Louis later built Nos. 11 and 9 there.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1857

    Louis Peugnet builds an Italianate investment house next to his own home

    In 1857, twelve years after building his family home at No. 11, Louis Peugnet put up this 23-foot-wide Italianate house for well-off tenants. It had three stories of red brick over a brownstone English basement, heavy stoop railings, and floor-length parlor windows. The first tenants left quickly, and their furniture, including a rosewood piano, was auctioned on April 28, 1858. Two weeks earlier Peugnet had listed the house for rent at $950 a year.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1870

    The Peugnet family goes abroad, leaving the furnished house to rent, and never returns

    In 1870 Louis Peugnet went abroad with his family for a long stay and left all their furnishings in the Bank Street house. An August 1870 advertisement offered it furnished, with a yard and fine parlors, for $175 a month. The family never came back: on September 21, 1877, the New York Herald reported that Peugnet had died at Trois Torrent in Switzerland.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1891

    July 20

    A divorce suit names a young man from 9 Bank Street

    In summer 1891 John Denyke, son of Civil War veteran Peter Denyke, who lived here, was dragged into a scandalous divorce case. Merrit J. Mott had been ordered to pay alimony to his wife Florence, and on July 20, 1891, he went to court to end it. He accused her of unfaithful conduct with John Denyke at 9 Bank Street and with two other men, while she had charged him with cruelty and having her watched.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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