Saitta House
1135 84th Street | Dyker Heights | built 1935
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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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- 1897
Simone Saitta buys a high plot in Dyker Heights and hires John J. Petit to design a house
In 1897 Simone Saitta bought a lot high up in Dyker Heights, with views over the harbor and the park, in the suburb that developer Walter Johnson was building. He hired architect John J. Petit, whose recent work in Flatbush and Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea was well regarded. By then Dean Alvord had already picked Petit as chief architect of Prospect Park South.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1899
A Manhattan artichoke wholesaler settles here with his wife and their adult daughter
Simone Saitta, an Italian-born Manhattan wholesale fruit dealer who specialized in artichokes, was to live in the new house with his wife Beatrice. Their adult daughter Minnie, who had two children, lived there too. Brownstoner notes that history does not record how Saitta found his architect.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1899
Craftsmen from Italy live on the lot while they build the house
P. J. La Note was the builder, working for Simone and Beatrice Saitta, and the house was completed around 1899. It reportedly cost about $14,000 to build, with the 8,000 square feet of land costing $2,700. According to Wikipedia's summary of the National Register nomination, craftsmen from Italy did the work and stayed on the property while the house went up.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1899
Petit builds an 'English half-timbered' Queen Anne with Tudor details
Petit combined Queen Anne massing, with dormers, gables, bays and deep porches, with stucco, half-timbering and diamond-patterned windows, a look he called 'English half-timbered.' Inside, the woodwork, mantels and floors follow an Elizabethan pattern seen through a Victorian lens.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 2007
The Saitta House is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places
The house went onto both registers in 2007. The nomination called it a remarkably intact, high-style Queen Anne home, and said no other house in Dyker Heights keeps so much of its original structure and detail inside and out. It also noted the house's link to the planning of Dyker Heights as a turn-of-the-century suburb.
“No other house in Dyker Heights retains so much of its original architectural and structural components…”
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
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