106 Westervelt Avenue
New Brighton | built 1884
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1884
Dry goods merchant James Wardlaw builds a Queen Anne frame house on Westervelt Avenue
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James Wardlaw, who ran a dry goods business at 56 Walker Street in Manhattan and had been living at 35 St. Marks Place, bought a lot from Albert Love in 1880 that was too narrow to build on, then a second strip from Love in 1883. Around 1884 he appears to have built this three-story frame house, which he mentions in an 1885 codicil to his will. A wide, angled two-story oriel rises from the porch roof and ends in a polygonal dormer in the steep gabled roof.
“Wardlaw appears to have built this house which he refers to in a codicil added to his will in 1885.”
- 1886
Wardlaw's daughter, Isabelle Wardlaw Rimmer, takes over the house
About two years after James Wardlaw built the house, the property passed in 1886 to his daughter, Isabelle Wardlaw Rimmer. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's report on the district lists Wardlaw as the house's original owner and developer, and its architect as unknown.
“In 1886 the property passed to his daughter, Isabelle Wardlaw Rimmer.”
- 1925
Relatives of fire alarm telegraph operator Paul Barry live in the house
Builder and carpenter John Seaton lived here from the 1890s through 1915. By 1925 the house was home to relatives of Paul Barry, a fire alarm telegraph operator, and the Barry family went on to own it for some time, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1994 report on the district.
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