Rudolphus R. Bogert House
20 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1900
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- 1826
George Paulding builds 20 Charlton Street; merchant Rudolphus Bogert is first owner
George Paulding built 20 Charlton Street in 1826, an 18-foot-wide Federal house in Flemish bond brick. Rudolphus Ritzema Bogert, a merchant and director of the United Insurance Company, was born in Holland in 1766 and is first listed at the address in 1827. His family, including his wife Ann Clark and son Rudolphus Jr., stayed on until after his death on November 16, 1842, when his funeral was held at the house.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1851
T. M. Ferguson advertises a boarding academy from 20 Charlton Street
Around 1850 T. M. Ferguson and his wife took the house while helping run the Charlotte Boarding Academy in Davenport, New York. An October 1851 ad offered yearly tuition of $130 covering board and supplies, with circulars available at 20 Charlton Street. They boarded Euphrates Hirst, a teacher at Ward School No. 18, who earned $1,000 in 1853 and sat on the board of the New York Bible Society.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1870
The Pauldings advertise to rent out their furnished house while staying on as paying boarders
The Paulding family bought the house around 1870, with the title in Ellen Paulding's name. In an advertisement on September 18, 1870, they offered a furnished second-floor front room to gentlemen only. The notice then took an odd turn, proposing that a respectable family rent the entire furnished house for $40 a week while the advertiser, his wife and their four-year-old paid $20 a week to stay on, with coal for a year and kindling for three years included.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1902
A benzine can explodes as Ida Promezkty cleans a dark room, fatally burning her
By 1902 the house was a boarding house. On the afternoon of August 21, Ida Promezkty was cleaning a dark room with a benzine-soaked rag while her six-year-old daughter, Mary, held a candle for her. The girl dropped the candle onto a can of benzine, which exploded. Mary was unhurt, but her mother's clothing caught fire and was nearly all burned away before other boarders reached her. Ida Promezkty died at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1921
Margaret Howell has architect Maxwell Hyde remodel the house
Leonard Weill bought 20 Charlton Street in 1920 and sold it in November 1921 to Margaret Donahue Howell. Plans by architect Maxwell Hyde added interior walls, skylights, and merged two dormers into one. Howell offered it in June 1922 for $22,000 as a remodeled three-story house with a garden and a separate top-floor studio apartment.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1946
A 1946 renovation gives 20 Charlton Street one apartment per floor
After years as a boarding house and then a remodeled dwelling, the house was renovated in 1946 to make one apartment per floor. Later tenants included Robert Kornfeld, an advertising man, in 1948, and Josephine Assenza, a member of the women's group Amita, in 1960. A 2017 renovation turned the parlor, upper floors and attic back into one family home with an apartment in the basement.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Rudolphus R. Bogert House - 20 Charlton StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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