9 Charlton Street
Hudson Square | built 1830
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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.
- 1930
Early 1930s work joins the carriage house to 9 Charlton Street and turns the house into rental apartments
No. 9 Charlton Street began as a single-family house and later served as a boarding house. In the early 1930s the carriage house behind it, until then a separate building, was joined to the main house. The stoop was taken off at the same time, and the building was converted into rental apartments, which is how a neighbor's 2005 history of the street describes it.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1932
A March 1932 photograph shows 9 Charlton Street on the corner, days after Sixth Avenue's extension opens
A photograph from March 1932, taken days after the Sixth Avenue extension opened, shows 9 Charlton Street standing at the corner with Sixth. The twin houses at 11 and 13 are beside it, and the Spring Street IND subway station has an entrance on Charlton. A strip of land next to No. 9, where 7 Charlton once stood, later held billboards behind a picket fence until the city bought it in 1959 and made it a park.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1952
Aaron Copland is due to leave the carriage house at 9 Charlton Street on December 1, his last Manhattan home
The composer Aaron Copland lived in the carriage house behind 9 Charlton Street from 1951 to 1952. In a letter of November 8, 1952 to his friends Irving and Verna Fine, he told them to write to him at 9 Charlton, since he would not leave until December 1. It was his last apartment in Manhattan, because he then bought a house in Ossining, New York.
Source: Village Preservation
- 1980
Actor Fred Gwynne of The Munsters lives at 9 Charlton Street in the 1980s
By the 1980s the old corner house held rental apartments, and one of its residents was the actor Fred Gwynne, best known for the television comedy The Munsters. A history of Charlton Street written by a neighbor in 2005 names him in the same passage as the composer Aaron Copland, who had a work studio in the house's carriage house in the early 1940s.
Source: Internet Archive
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