2 Carroll Place
also 33 Westervelt Avenue, 33 Carroll Place | New Brighton | built 1915
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1868
Dr. Theodore and Mary Walser sell their new Second Empire house to John Wood
Mary Walser and her husband, physician Dr. Theodore Walser, bought a tract from William Pendleton in 1866 and built several houses on it, this one among them. The three-story clapboard house was standing by March 1868, when John Wood acquired it. Wood kept it only four years and returned it to the Walsers in 1872. Sometime between 1887 and 1891 the couple built a two-story mansard wing onto its south side.
“…the house at 33 Westervelt Avenue was standing by March 1868, when the property was acquired by John Wood. Wood held the property for only four years…”
- 1897
Drs. Charles and Emma Townsend open a medical practice in the house
Around 1897 the Walsers' daughter, Emma A. Townsend, moved in with her husband, Dr. Charles Wilmot Townsend of the S.R. Smith Infirmary. He set up his medical office here, assisted by his wife, who had graduated from the Women's Medical College of New York and studied with him at medical schools in Berlin, Prague and Vienna.
“Charles Townsend established a medical office at No. 33 where he practiced with the assistance of his wife, a graduate of the Women's Medical College of New York…”
- 1907
Dr. Charles Townsend is shot dead by the husband of a former patient
On January 26, 1907, Dr. Charles Wilmot Townsend, who practiced medicine from this house, was shot and killed by the grieving husband of a woman he had once treated. Afterward his widow, Dr. Emma Townsend, relocated to 11 St. Marks Place, and another physician, Dr. Alfred H. Thomas, bought the house.
“On January 26, 1907, Charles Townsend was shot to death by the grieving husband of one of his former patients.”
- 1910
Dr. Alfred H. Thomas adds a neo-Colonial porch, a north wing and a stone garage
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Between 1910 and 1917 Dr. Alfred H. Thomas made a series of changes to the house and built a garage on Carroll Place. The main entrance on Westervelt Avenue was enlarged under a new neo-Colonial porch, and a three-story addition went up on the north side facing Carroll Place.
“Between 1910 and 1917 he had a number of alterations made to the house and built the garage on Carroll Place.”
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