William Sackett Jr. House

123 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1854

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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.

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  1. 1854

    Robert Carnley builds twin row houses on East 10th Street

    Robert Carnley, who lives next door at 191 Tenth Street, builds two matching houses at 193 and 195 Tenth Street in 1854, later renumbered 123 and 125 East 10th Street. The block was once part of Peter Stuyvesant's farm. Each house is four stories tall and two bays wide, with a rusticated first floor, arched openings, red brick upper floors and full-width cast-iron balconies at the second floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1864

    January 20

    Furniture dealer William Sackett Jr. marries and moves into the house

    William H. Sackett Jr. marries Frances Carnley, the builder's daughter, on January 20, 1864. They first live in the Carnley house next door and by 1866 own and occupy this one. Sackett runs a furniture business at 397 Eighth Avenue, and the couple has three children, one of whom, Robert, dies in 1870 at about a year and a half old.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1895

    February 15

    Head librarian Ellen M. Coe announces her engagement from the house

    Ellen M. Coe, head librarian of the New York Free Circulating Library, rents a room in the house of the physician Dr. Richard W. Muller. There she meets one of his patients, Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Rylance, rector of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. On February 15, 1895, Rylance announces that she will become his wife, as the New York Herald reports.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1953

    November 14

    Bronx cleaning commissioner Julian Fairfax Scott dies in the house

    Colonel Julian Fairfax Scott, born in Maryland in 1877, belongs to the New York National Guard and is appointed Cleaning Commissioner for the Bronx in 1909. He dies in the house on November 14, 1953. The house is never converted to apartments and remains a single-family home today.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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