112 Waverly Place

[jimmie]

Curious, does anyone have info on this pinkstone?

http://www.cornershots.com/archives/000507.html

[ManhattanKnight]

Curious, does anyone have info on this pinkstone?

http://www.cornershots.com/archives/000507.html

It's 112 Waverly Place, one of a group of 9 Federal-style houses built for Thomas R. Mercein in 1826.

"Until recent years, No. 112 was a three-story Federal style house, with paneled lintels . . . attic, dormer windows, and basement. Up a five-step stoop was a charming rectangular doorway with columns and a door flanked at sides and top by rectangular glass lights. At the start of the Twentieth Century, while still retaining its Federal appearance, No. 112 was the studio of Everett Shinn, one of the Ashcan school of painters, and here in its rear court he built the Little Theatre and organized the Waverly Place Players. Today, as redesigned, it has a severe but asymmetrical brick facade, with large and wide casement window groups at the right, and small individual windows to the left, one on each floor. The top floor was added and has a wide casement window on center beneath a skylight."

--- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report (1969) Vol. 1, p. 150.

[Lemonsoda]

That is a wonderfully spruced up dwelling. It takes more than a physical and mental gutting to go for that kind of presence. Great panache and a sure sense of style!

I wonder how it will weather.