Rosanna Dunn House

21 Prince Street | Nolita | built 1910

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

  1. 1837

    Rosanna Dunn signs a petition against widening Centre Street

    In 1837 the Board of Aldermen planned to extend and widen Centre Street between Broome and Houston Streets, and neighbors petitioned the mayor against it. One signer was listed as "Rose Dunn, No. 21 Prince street, owner." Dunn, born in 1795 and twice widowed, owned several local properties and lived in this 21-foot-wide Federal-style brick house with her sons Anthony and James Conron. A smaller house in the rear yard brought in extra income.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1853

    The Conron brothers run a liquor store and take in boarders at 21 Prince Street

    After their mother Rosanna Dunn died in January 1851, James and Anthony Conron stayed on in the house. By 1853 they were running a liquor store or saloon, and they took in boarders, including a porter and an engineer at the New-York Tribune building. Anthony, a member of the volunteer Gallagher Guard, called a meeting of the company at his house in 1859. After he died in 1864 the house became a boarding house, with seven boarders in 1867, several of them tailors, a shoemaker and a cloak worker.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1887

    Patrick Daly hires William Grant to remodel the old Federal house with a cast-iron storefront

    Patrick Daly bought the property for $11,700 in December 1886 and four months later hired architect William Grant to alter the front building. Grant raised the attic to a full fourth floor, split the ground level into two stores behind a cast-iron storefront, and added pressed-metal pediments with Beaux Arts ornament, terra cotta window frames and a cast-metal cornice. The change from Flemish to running bond in the brickwork still shows where the new floor begins.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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