Galerie St. George
11 Phelps Place | St. George | built 1890
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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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- 1890
A freestanding Shingle Style house with an octagonal tower rises at No. 11 Phelps Place
No. 11, at the northern edge of the western group, was one of three freestanding houses among the eleven that Anson Phelps Stokes built on his estate in 1890 to designs by Douglas Smyth. It combines two- and three-story sections with a three-story octagonal tower, a fish-scale-shingled gable and a porch that runs west into a porte-cochere. Merchant E.S. Twining was one of its first occupants.
- 1910
Retired Lt. Col. Albert C. Blunt, once adjutant general of Puerto Rico, rents No. 11 Phelps Place
By 1910 the house was rented by Lieutenant-Colonel Albert C. Blunt, a retired U.S. Army officer who had been adjutant general of the District of Puerto Rico. His wife Edith was a daughter of Dr. John Clarkson Eccleston, who led St. John's Church in Rosebank for more than forty years. They lived here with a daughter, three sons and three servants.
- 1925
No. 11 Phelps Place is split into apartments for engineers, a teacher and a chemist
After surgeon Daniel P. MacGuire rented the house and paid in 1912 for a $900 job that may have been the garage on the west edge of the lot, No. 11 was divided into apartments. In 1925 its tenants included a civil engineer, his teacher wife and his chemist brother, a mining engineer and his wife, and an executive's family. It has since become a single-family house again.
“By 1925 the dwelling had been divided into apartments.”
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