11 West 9th St. #TH1

This four-story townhouse is one of a trio of Anglo-Italianate town houses built as a row in 1855 for iron merchant Henry Pierson, unified with a continuous bracketed roof cornice and an attractive scroll work pattern in the frieze. It lies in the heart of central Greenwich Village, on one of the half dozen streets just north of Washington Square that run west from lower 5th Avenue. Known a century ago as 5th Avenue’s Gold Coast, it was where the wealthy flocked to starting in the mid-19th Century, and where both Edith Wharton and Henry James grew up and wrote about during the gilded age.
The 17-1/2 foot wide building is currently configured as five apartments, a 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath owner’s triplex on the lower floors, and two studio apartments on each of the two upper floors, but could easily be reconfigured as a single family home