

The current structure is actually the seventh building constructed on this site. Over the years, the various buildings were used as a flophouse for beatniks, a notoriously bacchanalian speakeasy, a failed nunnery, and the lair of a Puritan witchfinder who tortured immigrants in the basement. The original structure was destroyed in a fiery blaze, as were the subsequent five buildings on the same plot of land. It is unclear who first built on the site, but it housed a Satanic cult that performed human sacrifices. Before any permanent structures were built on the land, it was used as a Potter's field: a mass grave for paupers and inmates from New York's first penitentiary, Newgate Prison. With the arrival of European colonizers, the site became used for pagan sacrifices.

Shamans of the Wappinger tribe were known to journey here for vision quests. The site continued to serve as a place for arcane Native American Indian rituals. Years before any permanent Western European settlements, a powerful Native American Indian Shaman cursed the land to bind the chaos-entity Tyanon to that place and bar her full access to Earth. The location itself appears to be a focal point for mystical energies with a nerve center of dragon ley lines running beneath foundations, the veins of magic running through the Earth. Ī powerful Native American Indian Shaman cursing the land to bind the chaos-entity Tyanon It is also the greatest concentration of occult esoterica and mystical phenomena in existence. Also known as the Sanctum Sanctorum, the townhouse has served as the personal residence of Doctor Strange and formerly as the headquarters of the Defenders and the New Avengers. The mansion of Doctor Stephen Strange is located at 177A Bleecker Street, New York City, NY 10012-1406, on the corner of Bleecker Street and Fenno Place in the heart of Greenwich Village.

The first appearance of the real-life house of the accursed Dr.
