Rose Hill

203 East 29th Street | Kips Bay | built 1901

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1790

   Merchant Nicholas Cruger builds a country house on Rose Hill Farm

   Around 1790, merchant Nicholas Cruger built a post-and-beam clapboard farmhouse with a Dutch-style hipped roof at what is now 203 East 29th Street, on land that had been part of the 131-acre Rose Hill Farm laid out by John Watts in 1747. Cruger had bought the plot in 1786 for 144 pounds.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1873

   The country house becomes a rooming house

   By 1873 the former farmhouse had been converted into a rooming house advertising "handsomely furnished rooms to let" for gentlemen, and a junk shop had opened at street level by 1912 as the once-rural block filled in with the city.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1905

   A retired actress lives among the house's roomers

   Among the building's tenants in 1905 was 68-year-old retired actress Elizabeth Lamoureaux, who had performed in France with Sarah Bernhardt's company and toured America with the Ravel troupe.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1979

   New owners restore the wooden farmhouse

   Patrick and Linda Lyons bought the deteriorated house for $80,000 in 1979 and spent three years restoring it, preserving one of the last wood-frame dwellings left in Manhattan, survivors of an 1866 law that banned new frame construction in the city.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 1982

   July 8

   Rose Hill joins the National Register of Historic Places

   The Rose Hill farmhouse was added to the New York State Register of Historic Places on June 1, 1982, and to the National Register five weeks later, on July 8, 1982, recognized along with its carriage house as a rare surviving wooden dwelling in Manhattan.

   Source: Wikipedia

Further reading

• 203 East 29th StreetWikipedia
• Rose Hill - 203 East 29th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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