Abner Tucker House

 place with historical importance, apartment building, 1830s construction, historical building

2.5-story Federal-style residential building completed in 1831 as a townhouse for Abner Tucker. It has a facade of red Flemish bond brickwork, with original paneled stone window lintels, and exceptionally well preserved dormer windows. The high stoop has simple wrought iron railings, with built-in shoe scraper and ornamental scrolls at the top above the landing. At one time this house was converted to a stable which, accounts for the large doorway, now a garage door, which led through to the back before front and rear houses had been connected, thus filling the lot.

In the last half of the 19th century the parlor floor was gutted and house had the stable. By the turn of the century William and Alice Evens owned the stable. In 1918 William Egloff leased this house. In 1922 painter and sculptor Frederick MacMonnies set to work to convert the ground floor into his studio. Through his associations with Stanford White and Carrere & Hastings, he received numerous architectural-related commissions, including the spandrel reliefs for White’s Washington Square Arch, the Nathan Hale monument in City Hall Park and several groupings for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1931 Baird Hall lived here. In 1937 studio was taken over by modern dancers Bruhs Mero and Felicia Sorel. This house called the Dance Gallery. Sculptor Isamu Noguchi lived here for a period at the beginning of World War II, and sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione used the studio space several years later. In 1954 house was converted to a garage according to the Department of Buildings.