MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District

MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens
Historic District
82-96 MacDougal Street
Location 74-86 MacDougal St. & 170-188 Sullivan St.
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates 40°43′42″N 74°00′05″W / 40.72833°N 74.00139°WCoordinates: 40°43′42″N 74°00′05″W / 40.72833°N 74.00139°W
Built MacDougal: 1844
Sullivan: 1850
Renovation & redesign: 1921
Architect Renovation & redesign: Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde
Architectural style Colonial Revival
Governing body District: local
Houses: private
NRHP Reference # 83001736[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP June 30, 1983[1]
Designated NYCL August 2, 1967[2]

The MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District is a small historic district consisting of 22 houses located at 74-96 MacDougal Street and 170-188 Sullivan Street between Houston and Bleecker Streets in the South Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

The houses were built in 1844 (MacDougal Street) and 1850 (Sullivan Street) in the Greek Revival style, but became deteriorated until they were bought in 1920 by William Sloane Coffin, a director of the W. & J. Sloane Company furniture and rug retailer, who formed the Hearth and Home Corporation to do so. Coffin's intention was to create a middle-class development in what had become a slum; the project would be the most extensive such effort to date. Coffin engaged architects Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde, who converted the houses into apartments – a five-room duplex, a four-room apartment, and two "non-housekeeping" apartments – and re-faced the buildings in Colonial Revival style while retaining some of the original Greek Revival elements. They removed all the buildings' stoops and combined the rear yards to make a common garden.

The renovation of the buildings was completed by 1921, and the garden by 1923. The houses were sold to individual owners in 1924, with the integrity of the project maintained by the MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Association.[2][3][4]

The district was designated a New York City landmark in 1967[2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District" on the NRHP database
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 NYCLPC MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District Designation Report"
  3. ↑ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). (2009) Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, p.50
  4. ↑ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.124

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