Map Source: William Bridges, Map of the City of New York and Island of Manhattan, as Laid Out by the Commissioners Appointed by the Legislature, April 3d, 1807, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, DC, 1811.
Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, and many other New York painters rented rooms at 51 West Tenth Street in the first building ever created specifically to serve artists' needs, designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1857.