1933

Manhattan: 10th Street - 5th Avenue

10th Street, west from Fifth Avenue, showing 10-44 West 10th Street on the south side. 26 West 10th Street, in the middle of the group of brownstone houses with the second story balcony common to them all, is the residence of the columnist "F. P. A." (Franklin P. Adams). 44 West 10th Street is The John Alcen, a 9-story apartment house erected between 1916 and 1920 on the site of old 42-6, brick houses. Prior to the 1870's this street was numbered east from Sixth Avenue. May 29, 1933 P. L. Sperr. No. 14, the second house from the left, in which Mark Twain lived when he returned from his world tour in 1901, has been sold by Francis S. Farr and the new owner will remodel[l] same, according to the New York Times of April 19, 1938. It is said that during this residence, the author wrote "To the Person sitting in Darkness," ["]The Tale of a King and his Treasure" and "The Watermelons."

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection