19 King Street

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

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1817
Astor pays off Aaron Burr and starts building out the Richmond Hill land that includes King Street
After his duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr left the city and John Jacob Astor took over his Richmond Hill estate, with Burr keeping a right to buy part of it back for twenty years. In 1817 Astor paid Burr off, the hill was levelled, and the old mansion was rolled down to Charlton and Varick Streets, where it served as a theatre. Local builders bought most of the new lots and put up houses as investments, and many of the houses on King Street, the block where No. 19 stands, went up within a few years in the early and mid-1820s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1826
Three King Street houses, Nos. 15, 17 and 19, are built together and once matched
No. 19 King Street goes up in 1826 as one of three houses built jointly, together with its neighbors at Nos. 15 and 17. All three originally looked like No. 15 and No. 17 do today, but No. 19 has since been changed and no longer matches them. The three houses and their surroundings received landmark status in 1966, when the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District was designated.
Source: Village Preservation

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