Thorn Walling House

94 Bank Street | West Village | built 1839

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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. 1839

    William Buckland builds three 18-foot-wide houses at Bank and Greenwich Streets, including 94 Bank

    Mason and developer William Buckland bought the vacant corner land in 1838 and finished three narrow Greek Revival houses the next year. The house first numbered 86 became 94 Bank Street in the 1867 renumbering. The street takes its name from the Bank of New York, which acquired building lots here in 1798 so that a branch could relocate north if an epidemic hit the city.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1866

    Washington Market poultry dealer Thorn Walling buys 94 Bank Street and lives there until his death

    Around 1866 Thorn Walling, born in 1811, acquired the house. He sold poultry at Washington Market and took part in the butchers' and grocers' associations. His wife Mary Jane died in 1872 and her funeral was held in the house; Walling lived on alone until his own death on May 10, 1880. The executors sold the house that November for $6,800.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1886

    Thomas and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick hire W. H. Walker to raise the attic and add an Italianate cornice

    After buying the house for $7,860, the Fitzpatricks had builder and architect W. H. Walker modernize it. He raised the low attic to a full floor, added an Italianate cornice, and fitted sheet-metal window cornices with small corbels below the sills. The wrought-iron stoop newels may have been removed in the same work.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1891

    April 16

    A seven-story warehouse fire across Bank Street scorches 94 Bank and drives out two families

    The Wilson Building across the street burned from about 11:30 on the night of April 16, 1891, and firefighters battled it until 4 a.m. The heat set nearby homes alight, and 94 Bank Street, home to the families of Thomas Fitzpatrick and John McVeattie, was badly damaged on the side nearest the fire. Fitzpatrick, a city fire inspector, lived in the house for more than 25 years and died there in 1913.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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