143 Allen Street

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1830
Sutton finances the houses with profits from the cotton trade
Sutton sails between New York and Charleston and makes his money in the Southern cotton trade. According to a Landmarks Preservation Commission report cited by Ephemeral New York, his ships bring cotton grown by enslaved people to Manhattan, where it is reloaded onto ships bound for England. He rents the houses mostly to friends and business associates, many of them in the same trade, and sells them by 1838.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1831
George Sutton builds a row of Federal-style houses on Allen Street
Ship captain George Sutton leases five lots on Allen Street from his in-laws, along with an adjoining lot on Rivington Street, and by 1831 has houses standing on all of them, including No. 143. It is a brick house two and a half stories tall in the Federal style, set above a shallow English basement and reached by a stone stoop. Its brownstone trim and high attic dormers mark it as a merchant-class home.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2010
The city designates 143 Allen Street a landmark
A 1912 alteration lowers the entrance to sidewalk level and removes the stoop, but the upper floors survive remarkably intact. The neighboring Federal houses are later demolished, leaving No. 143 as the only one still standing. The city designates it a landmark in 2010.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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