Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest House

21 King Street | Hudson Square | built 1826

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The lot about 1940
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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. 1826

    Rev. Cornelius T. Demarest moves in next to his True Dutch Reformed Church

    Cornelius T. Demarest, born in 1786, lived at 21 King Street with his wife Margretta Lydecker Demarest, next door to the True Dutch Reformed Church at 23 King Street, completed in 1826. He took in boarders in the 1840s, among them a book dealer, Thomas Whybrew. Demarest died on December 26, 1862, and his widow advertised the house for sale in April 1865.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1875

    August 22

    Brush manufacturer James Noe is fatally beaten by a burglar at his factory

    James H. Noe, a brush manufacturer with a factory at 275 Greenwich Street, bought 21 King Street in 1875. That August he found the burglar John Richard Dolan coming down from the roof of the factory, and Dolan struck him on the head with an iron bar. Noe died four days later at Chambers Street Hospital, and Dolan was hanged at the Tombs in April 1876. Noe may have raised the attic to a full floor and added an Italianate cornice.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1890

    October 25

    Plans for a four-story flat to replace the old house at 21 King Street are filed

    Detective A. W. Thompson bought the house around 1890. On October 25, 1890, his architect, M. Snedeker, filed plans to replace it with a four-story brick flat. The plans were abandoned, and the Federal house survived. It was altered again in 1932 and 1936, and the parlor floor was probably faced in stone then. It has three apartments today.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1897

    May 3

    Firefighter Charles Thompson, injured in a fire, is taken from the house to Bellevue

    Charles S. Thompson, a member of Engine Company 19 since 1887, lived here with his mother Adolphine. In 1892 a wall collapse at a fire fractured his skull, and by 1897 he suffered severe headaches. On May 3 he was brought home confused and, after a violent episode, was taken by ambulance to Bellevue's insane pavilion.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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