123 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1925

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.

1888
Mary Dobson buys the lot, and her large Haverty family soon fills the new house
John M. Pendleton sold this lot in 1888 to Mary A. Dobson, wife of John L. Dobson, and a house followed within a few years. By 1890 it held Dobson, a book salesman and later a publisher, his wife, and her relatives: James Haverty, a retired carpenter, and Ellen Haverty, her parents; Elizabeth and Nellie Haverty, sisters who taught school; and Daniel Haverty, a brother who clerked for a brokerage. The childless Dobsons' Haverty relatives stayed until 1938.
“In 1888 John M. Pendleton sold this lot to Mary A. Dobson, wife of John L. Dobson. Within the next few years a house was built…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
Architect Maurice G. Uslan turns the Queen Anne house into a two-family home
In 1938 Ellen Haverty sold the house to David S. Bellows, who hired Staten Island architect Maurice G. Uslan to make it a two-family dwelling. Uslan pushed the first and second stories of the front forward, extended half of the rear, covered the walls in asbestos shingles and removed a front chimney and dormer. He also designed a two-car garage on Carroll Place. The neo-Colonial touches reflect the traditionalist taste of 1930s American architecture.
“Ellen Haverty sold the property to David S. Bellows, who commissioned Staten Island architect Maurice G. Uslan to alter the house for use as a two-family dwelling…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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