135 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1910

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1922

    Emma C. Will's neo-Colonial frame house is divided into apartments

    The lot was carved from the grounds of the A.B. Boardman house (first the Oliver E. Lee house) after Boardman died and the Black Melnicker Corporation split the land for building. Emma C. Will leased No. 135 and hired Manhattan architect Robert Curry to design a three-story, shingled frame house with a Palladian window in its front dormer. In 1922 it was cut up into apartments, its whole front pushed forward and a story added to the rear porch.

    “In 1922 the building was subdivided into apartments at which time the entire front was extended and a story was added to the rear porch.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1925

    A retired lawyer, a school principal and a janitor's family share the apartments

    The 1925 New York State census found a varied group of tenants in the converted house: a retired lawyer with his wife, a public school principal whose wife taught school, an auditor, and a janitor with his family. The building was later divided into five apartments, the arrangement the Landmarks Preservation Commission recorded when it designated the St. George/New Brighton district.

    “The 1925 New York State census indicates that the building's tenants included a retired lawyer and his wife, a public school principal…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1927

    The Murray Hill Operating Corporation adds rows of garages along Carroll Place

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    Filed as a new building in 1927, one-story three-car and five-car garages went up on the Carroll Place edge of the lot sometime before 1935, beside an earlier two-car garage. They served tenants of three buildings held by the Murray Hill Operating Corporation: this house, the Wisteria Apartments at 141 St. Marks Place and a double house at 30-32 Nicholas Place.

    “These garages were intended to serve the tenants at No. 135 St Marks Place, as well as the tenants in the double house at 30-32 Nicholas Place…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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