119 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1891

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.

1893
Dress-lining manufacturer John Irving buys the house at a foreclosure sale
Vernon H. Brown of the Cunard line had Edward A. Sargent design this Shingle Style house with No. 115 and sold it in 1891 to Amy Martin. Two years later it went at foreclosure to John Irving, a maker of cotton dress linings who had bought the Crabtree & Wilkinson silk dyeworks on nearby Jersey Street when that firm closed in 1881. His business, founded in Brooklyn in 1869, dyed and pleated cotton dress linings, tarlatans and linens.
“Two years later the house was acquired at a foreclosure sale by John Irving, a manufacturer of cotton dress linings…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
Mill manager Ralph Van Wormer adds a garage and driveway off Carroll Place
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Stockbroker Henry Miller and Sarah Miller, his wife, owned the house by 1900. During the 1920s and 1930s it was home to Elfrida and Ralph Van Wormer, a mill manager, who historic maps suggest built a large rear addition sometime between 1926 and 1937. The one-car garage and its driveway from Carroll Place followed in 1936. In 1984 the house was converted into a two-family residence.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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