17 Carroll Place
New Brighton | built 1874
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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.
- 1836
A small stable stands on this sloping lot by 1836, named in a New Brighton land deed
Before the present building, a smaller stable already occupied this site by 1836. Its existence is recorded in the land description of a deed from Thomas E. Davis to the New Brighton Association. The Landmarks Preservation Commission judged that it was probably a frame building, much like the old carriage house that still survives behind 272 Richmond Terrace.
- 1874
The carriage house likely serves the Hotel Wilkinson, run in two Richmond Terrace mansions
This brick carriage house and servants' quarters was put up for the mansion at 404 Richmond Terrace, probably during the 1850s or 1860s. Its builder was either Henry P. Robertson, a New York merchant, or James Wilkinson of the silk dyeing firm Crabtree & Wilkinson, who bought the mansion from Robertson. By 1874 Wilkinson's estate owned both 404 and his own home at 400 Richmond Terrace and ran them as the Hotel Wilkinson, with this building presumably housing guests' horses and carriages.
“By 1874 both houses had passed to Wilkinson's estate and were being used as the Hotel Wilkinson…”
- 1915
A chauffeur's family, an Irish-born ironworker and a plaster-mill laborer live in the converted stable
In 1895 Abigail Wilkinson sold the strip of the 404 Richmond Terrace lot along Carroll Place to Herbert Crabtree, owner of 9 Carroll Place, and by 1915 the old carriage house had become a dwelling and garage. The 1915 occupants were chauffeur John J. Barnwell with his wife, their four children and Barnwell's uncle Edward Reynolds, an ironworker born in Ireland, plus boarder Christopher Cullen, another Irish immigrant, who labored at a plaster mill nearby.
“No. 17 was converted to a dwelling and garage by 1915; its occupants then included John J. Barnwell, a chauffeur…”
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