100REAR Westervelt Avenue

also 100 Westervelt Avenue | New Brighton | built 1931

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1877

    Merchant Albert Love buys the lot at 100-104 Westervelt Avenue and builds a house

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    Albert Love, a merchant, bought this sloping fifty-six-foot lot in 1877 from Edward Reilly, a builder, and a house soon went up on it. The census of 1880 found Love and his family living there with two servants.

    “Albert Love, a merchant, acquired the lot in 1877 from Edward Reilly (a builder by trade), and a house was soon erected.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1887

    After Albert Love's death, his enlarged Shingle Style house is leased to jeweler Charles Wilson

    By 1887 Albert Love had died, and his house had recently been enlarged in the Shingle Style. It was rented to jeweler Charles Wilson for three years. In the early 1900s the house was home to John Fetherston and his two sons, one an engineer and the other an electrician, and by 1915 the family of William Daley had moved in from 82 Westervelt Avenue.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1930

    Rossy G. Benedict adds a neo-Gothic terra-cotta row of three stores in front of the old house

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    By the early 1920s the house belonged to J. Benedict, a dealer in mineral water. In 1930 Rossy G. Benedict added a one-story commercial wing reaching to the sidewalk, designed by Samuel Gardstein with Gothic arches along the terra-cotta parapet and piers dividing it into three storefronts. When the historic district was designated in 1994, one tenant occupied all three stores.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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