May 11, 2023 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
317
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - GREENWICH VILLAGE]
EWEN, D[ANIEL]; and THOS. R. LUDLOW. Map No. 1 of a piece of Land situated at Greenwich in the Ninth Ward of the City of New York shewing a division of the same between the Heirs of John Rogers Dec[ease]d. "Surveyed May 1824 / D. Ewen / Thos. R. Ludlow / City Surveyors." Manuscript map in ink on paper, hand colored, old linen backing. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (40 x 51 cm). Lightly toned and foxed, small chips mostly along edges, faint creasing, manuscript annotations in pencil and blue crayon to recto, old and new pen annotations and ink stamps to backing.
An important manuscript survey map showing property along Washington Square North, the location of a largely intact row of 1830's Greek Revival and Federal style townhouses that were among the city's most fashionable residences. This map shows how an irregularly shaped piece of property, west of Fifth Avenue and from Waverly Place (here called Sixth Street) to Ninth Street, was divided into three equal parts that were left to the heirs of wealthy merchant John Rogers Sr. His children, John Rogers, Jr. (1787~1841), George Pixton Rogers (1789-1870), and Mary Rogers (1790-1878), the wife of William Christopher Rhinelander, were responsible for developing the land. The brothers, similarly to the Sailor's Snug Harbor who developed "The Row" on the east side of Fifth Avenue, leased lots for a period of 21 years requiring that their first tenants build "a good and substantial dwelling house three stories high in brick or stone... and the front to be finished in such style as may be approved of" by the lessor (Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report, Vol. I, 1969. p. 143). On the other hand, Mary constructed two large adjacent houses, the Rhinelander mansions, at the corner of Fifth Avenue - both were demolished in 1951. The map shows the area as it was in 1824, just two years prior to the opening of Washington Square Park and the neighborhood's subsequent ascendance. As such, the map shows Thompson Street intersecting with Fifth Avenue. The map also depicts the intersection of Greenwich Lane and Art Street, which had replaced by Sixth Street sometime after the 1811 Commissioner's plan.
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - GREENWICH VILLAGE]
EWEN, D[ANIEL]; and THOS. R. LUDLOW. Map No. 1 of a piece of Land situated at Greenwich in the Ninth Ward of the City of New York shewing a division of the same between the Heirs of John Rogers Dec[ease]d. "Surveyed May 1824 / D. Ewen / Thos. R. Ludlow / City Surveyors." Manuscript map in ink on paper, hand colored, old linen backing. 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (40 x 51 cm). Lightly toned and foxed, small chips mostly along edges, faint creasing, manuscript annotations in pencil and blue crayon to recto, old and new pen annotations and ink stamps to backing.
An important manuscript survey map showing property along Washington Square North, the location of a largely intact row of 1830's Greek Revival and Federal style townhouses that were among the city's most fashionable residences. This map shows how an irregularly shaped piece of property, west of Fifth Avenue and from Waverly Place (here called Sixth Street) to Ninth Street, was divided into three equal parts that were left to the heirs of wealthy merchant John Rogers Sr. His children, John Rogers, Jr. (1787~1841), George Pixton Rogers (1789-1870), and Mary Rogers (1790-1878), the wife of William Christopher Rhinelander, were responsible for developing the land. The brothers, similarly to the Sailor's Snug Harbor who developed "The Row" on the east side of Fifth Avenue, leased lots for a period of 21 years requiring that their first tenants build "a good and substantial dwelling house three stories high in brick or stone... and the front to be finished in such style as may be approved of" by the lessor (Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report, Vol. I, 1969. p. 143). On the other hand, Mary constructed two large adjacent houses, the Rhinelander mansions, at the corner of Fifth Avenue - both were demolished in 1951. The map shows the area as it was in 1824, just two years prior to the opening of Washington Square Park and the neighborhood's subsequent ascendance. As such, the map shows Thompson Street intersecting with Fifth Avenue. The map also depicts the intersection of Greenwich Lane and Art Street, which had replaced by Sixth Street sometime after the 1811 Commissioner's plan.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023
