David S. Jones House

2 Bond Street | NoHo | built 1829

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1829

    Lawyer David S. Jones completes a large brick house at 2 Bond Street

    David S. Jones, a lawyer whose father Samuel Jones was called the Father of the New York Bar, began building here in 1828 on land he had inherited from the Herring farm. The 26-foot-wide house was finished in 1829, three and a half stories over an English basement, with a service road called Jones Alley giving it windows on three sides. Jones, who had 18 children from three marriages, moved his family to Long Island in 1835.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1858

    December 7

    Dr. Joshua Bridge buys the house and opens the Graefenberg Institute for women's ailments

    After the house sold at auction on December 7, 1858, Dr. Joshua F. Bridge bought it and ran the Graefenberg Institute there, which treated women's medical complaints. He developed his own remedies and advertised them in the New York Times, offering bottles by express. He moved the institute to Brooklyn in 1863, and the next owner, wholesale grocer Anthony S. Hope, raised the house to a full fourth floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1872

    David Tetzlaff turns the old house into a restaurant and shops, and photographic dealer George Murphy follows

    Around 1872 David Tetzlaff bought the property and installed a two-story cast-iron storefront. He ran an eating house in the basement while the floors above held a men's furnishings store, jewelers and German booksellers. In 1878 George Murphy opened a store here selling photographic plates, lenses and cameras. By 1895 the upper floors were occupied by clothing makers, including two firms that made knee pants.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1973

    Singer Joe Lee Wilson opens the Ladies' Fort, a jazz loft at 2 Bond Street

    From 1973 to 1978 the vocalist Joe Lee Wilson ran a jazz performance loft called the Ladies' Fort at this address. His Amsterdam News obituary says it drew jazz fans and musicians and let many players perform at a time when the city's regular clubs were closed to them. The obituary counts Wilson among the innovators of the jazz loft movement.

    Source: amsterdamnews.com

  5. 1977

    October 28

    Jazz returns to the Ladies' Fort, and the First Amendment improv theater plays below

    The New York Times reported on October 28, 1977 that jazz would return to the Ladies' Fort at 2 Bond Street with a Battle of the Big Bands. In the old restaurant space on the lower level was the First Amendment, an improvisational theater that marked its tenth anniversary in October 1985. In 1993 the upper three floors, long used by small factories, were converted into one living and working space for artists per floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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