10 Phelps Place

St. George | built 1930

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1890
Merchant George L. Montgomery and broker H.B. Montgomery move into new No. 10 Phelps Place
No. 10 is the northern half of the double house Douglas Smyth designed for Anson Phelps Stokes in 1890. Soon after it was finished, merchant George L. Montgomery and broker H.B. Montgomery lived here. In 1910 it was rented by a cotton-goods agent from Kentucky, his wife and daughter and an Irish servant.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Mining engineer Robert C. Stanley, later head of International Nickel, adds a garage at No. 10
Robert C. Stanley (1876-1951), a New Jersey-born mechanical and mining engineer whose mother Ada lived next door at No. 9, moved into No. 10 with his wife Alma, their daughter and three Irish servants. In 1912 he had the one-story garage built at the corner of the lot. Stanley went on to direct the International Nickel Company and other international firms.
“…directed the International Nickel Company and other international businesses…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
English-born stockbroker Harry W. Bearman and his family rent No. 10 Phelps Place
By 1925 the Stanleys had been succeeded at No. 10 by Harry W. Bearman, a stockbroker born in England, his wife Georgina, the couple's two daughters and a maid from Germany. An early twentieth-century room sheathed in shingles sits atop the porch, and the house remains a single-family home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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