Henry Knebel House

217 2nd Avenue | East Village | built 1900

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

1851
An Italianate row house is built for an owner named Nash
Village Preservation dates this Italianate row house to 1851, with Nash as its original owner. It was probably a single-family home at first. It would have had bracketed lintels, brownstone sills, and a pressed-metal cornice, but most of those details are gone. The raised-stoop entrance is still intact.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1862
Henry Knebel loses a trademark case over his soda-water bottles
Henry Knebel sold soda water in glass bottles stamped with his company's name. In 1862 he charged a man named Mullins with refilling and selling them, which an 1860 law prohibited. The court called the law "preposterous" and let Mullins go. Knebel later moved to 217 Second Avenue, around 1867.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1888
October
Soprano Luisa Cappiani advertises singing lessons from 217 Second Avenue
Luisa Cappiani, a dramatic soprano born in Austria in 1829 and known for Wagnerian roles, took rooms here around 1887 and stayed into the early 1890s. An October 1888 issue of The Voice carried her ad for lessons in the Old Italian method, giving this address. By then the house had been split into rented flats.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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