McCafferty House

146 East 38th Street | Murray Hill | built 1901

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1861
Builders Wise and Whitehead put up a row of Italianate brownstones
In 1860-61, builders Benjamin Wise Jr. and Joseph Whitehead erected 146 East 38th Street as one of a row of speculative Italianate brownstones, complete with a wide stoop, English basement, and an arched pediment over the doorway carried on foliate brackets. It survives as one of the few intact houses from that original row.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1875
Martin Herz marries into the family that invented the sewing machine
Kid-glove manufacturer Martin Herz, who lived at 146 East 38th Street in the 1870s, married Julia Ann Singer in 1875, a daughter of sewing-machine pioneer Isaac Merritt Singer.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1901
June 15
Bridge engineer Thomas Curtis Clarke dies in the house
Civil engineer Thomas Curtis Clarke, among the era's most prominent bridge-building engineers, was living at 146 East 38th Street with Ernest R. Adee, secretary of the Mercantile Trust Company, when he died there on June 15, 1901.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2008
May 21
The house joins the state and national historic registers
146 East 38th Street was added to the New York State Register of Historic Places on March 25, 2008, and to the National Register on May 21, 2008, as a contributing structure in the Murray Hill Historic District, recognized as one of the few intact Italianate brownstones remaining in Manhattan.
Source: Wikipedia

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