20 West 16th Street
House at 20 West 16th St. Emma Stebbins House | |
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| Location | 20 W. 16th St., New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′15″N 73°59′40″W / 40.73750°N 73.99444°WCoordinates: 40°44′15″N 73°59′40″W / 40.73750°N 73.99444°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Architect | Pearson, Isaac Greene |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 07000484[1] |
| NYSRHP # | 06101.016023 |
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| Added to NRHP | 2007-05-30 |
| Designated NYSRHP | 2007-04-09[2] |
20 West 16th Street is a house in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, it was owned by the artist Emma Stebbins from 1854 to her death in 1882. It is one of Manhattan's few remaining intact Gothic Revival houses.[3]
Description
20 West 16th Street is part of a set of five townhouses at 12–20 West 16th Street, built by Thomas Oliver and flanked by the Thorne Mansion and St. Francis Xavier High School.[3] With the expansion of the neighboring New York Hospital, the townhouses at number 12 and 14 were demolished in the early 20th century; number 16 was replaced with an apartment building by 1939, leaving numbers 18 and 20 as the only intact structures in Oliver's development[4] Across the street to the north are a group of houses at 5–9 and 17–23 West 16th Street (including the Margaret Sanger Clinic at number 17), which are all protected as New York City designated landmarks.[5][6]
Facade
The building is a three-bay-wide brick structure set back from a concrete front yard. It has a raised basement (placed just below ground level), with security grilles around the basement window. On the east (left) side of the building, a brick stoop with an iron railing ascends to the first-floor entrance; the right-hand (west) railing wraps around a newel post at the bottom. The first-floor entrance door retains its original wooden panels with quatrefoil and trefoil motifs, which are topped by a pair of vertical glass panels. Another entrance, to the basement, is located under this stoop.[6]
The first to third floors have tall parlor windows, each with black frames and plain windowsills. They originally had label moldings in their lintels, which have since been removed. The shorter fourth-floor windows open inward and lack windowsills and lintels.[7]
Interior
History
In 1954, a group of artists acquired 20 West 16th Street, paying $39,500 in cash and taking over the property's mortgage. The buyers planned to use the first floor for exhibits and the upper floors as sleeping quarters.[8] It subsequently hosted exhibitions of the Terrain Gallery.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. November 7, 2014. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 National Park Service 2007, p. 3.
- ↑ National Park Service 2007, pp. 3–4.
- ↑ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A., ed. Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. https://books.google.com/books?id=AwYcSFtdE_AC 76. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&tag=everybodywikien-20&index=books&keywords=Guide+to+New+York+City+Landmarks Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 National Park Service 2007, p. 4.
- ↑ National Park Service 2007, pp. 4–5.
- ↑ "Group Buys House on W. 16th Street; Five-Story Structure Will Be Occupied by Artists Writers and Teachers". The New York Times. 1954-07-24. Retrieved 2026-02-18.
- ↑ "Group Show Offers Water-Colors, Prints". The New York Times. 1956-04-14. Retrieved 2026-02-18.
Sources
- National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: House at 20 West 16th St (PDF) (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved February 18, 2026. With accompanying pictures
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