17 St Marks Place

also 19 St Marks Place | New Brighton | built 1874

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1. 1872

   The Walsers build a second double house as a rental investment

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   Mary and Dr. Theodore Walser built this three-story frame double house sometime between 1872 and 1874, on the tract they had bought from William Pendleton in 1866. Identical in design to their earlier house at 9-11 St. Marks Place, it was built as an investment and leased for much of its history to real estate agents, salesmen and retired businessmen.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1897

   Architect Clarence Luce lives at No. 19

   The architect Clarence Luce lived at 19 St. Marks Place, then numbered 9, from 1897 until at least 1907. He was one of a number of notable residents from the arts, the professions, business and government who settled here during the neighborhood's real estate boom, when more than thirty houses were built or remodeled between 1886 and 1896.

   “…architect Clarence Luce who lived at 19 St. Marks Place from ;1897 to at least 1907…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1907

   Dr. Emma Townsend, once the first woman intern at a New York hospital, moves into No. 17

   After her husband died in 1907, the Walsers' daughter Dr. Emma Townsend moved here from 33 Westervelt Avenue with her children. She had once been a New York hospital's first woman intern, and though she gave up practice by 1910 she served as president of the Staten Island Women's Club and on the local Board of Education. She was living at No. 17 when she died in 1916.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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