Neziah Bliss House
130 Kent Street | Greenpoint | built 1859
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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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- 1858
Developer Neziah Bliss starts building the Italianate pair at 130 and 132 Kent Street
Neziah Bliss, one of Greenpoint's earliest and largest developers, began work on the houses at 130 and 132 Kent Street in 1858. They were big Italianate houses with a high brick basement, and No. 130 kept most of its period detail, including a high stoop, a round-arched entrance with a fluted-column portico, and eyebrow lintels over the parlor windows. Bliss built similar houses along the block, but these stood a story taller than their neighbors.
Source: brownstoner.com
- 1859
Machinist Thomas Hutchinson becomes the first resident of 130 Kent Street and later turns to making china
Thomas Hutchinson was the first occupant of No. 130; he had earlier lived on Java Street near West Street. The city's landmark designation report says he was a machinist who changed careers during the Civil War and began manufacturing chinaware, an important Greenpoint industry. The house was one of a pair that Neziah Bliss built about 1858-59.
- 2016
A Greenpoint history notes that nothing marks 130 Kent Street, the home of Neziah Bliss
In a December 2016 entry in its series A History of Greenpoint in 25 Buildings, Greenpointers wrote that 130 Kent Street was the home of Neziah Bliss, whom it calls the man who founded Greenpoint. The article points out that John Ericsson is honored with a school and a statue and Pete McGuinness with a boulevard, while nothing, not even a plaque outside the house, commemorates Bliss.
Source: greenpointers.com
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