18 St Marks Place

New Brighton | built 1919

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

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1918
Norwegian builder Peter Larsen designs and builds this Craftsman house as one of four on the block
Peter Larsen, who came to Staten Island from Norway in 1902 and started a construction firm two years later, put up No. 18 in 1918-19 as one of four frame Craftsman houses at Nos. 14, 18, 22 and 26, serving as both developer and architect. The lots had belonged to the estate of Manhattan merchant Ladislao de Escoriaza, which the Hulse family bought in 1906 and began selling off in 1908.
“These houses were developed in 1918-19 by Peter Larsen (1879-?), a major builder on Staten Island in the early twentieth century.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1949
Leonard Savollo adds a rear extension to the house, which keeps its diamond-paned dormer sash
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A rear extension was built onto No. 18 in 1949 for Leonard Savollo. Of Larsen's four houses, this one is set apart by a pair of angled bays on its second story, a porch partly enclosed on the side opposite the entrance, and stained glass beside the door; its dormer still holds its original diamond-paned upper sash.
“The rear extension of No. 18 was added in 1949 (ALT 274-1949) for Leonard Savollo.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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