Edward C. Chapin House

220 East 13th Street | East Village | built 1910

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.

1851
Silk merchant Edward Chapin lives in a new house on East 13th Street
By 1851 silk-goods merchant Edward Colton Chapin, his wife Nancy Ann Reed, and their children lived in the recently completed house at 128 East 13th Street. The four-story brownstone-fronted house belonged to a row of matching Anglo-Italianate homes with short five-step stoops. The street was renumbered in 1868, making the address 220 East 13th Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1874
A home for elderly and disabled deaf New Yorkers is established in the house
Village Preservation dates the Home for the Aged and Infirm Deaf-Mutes here to 1874. The Reverend Thomas Gallaudet, head of St. Ann's Church for Deaf-Mutes, founded it, and philanthropist Jane Middleton ran it. The charity was unusual because it served elderly or disabled deaf people rather than students. St. Ann's still operates today under St. George's Episcopal Church.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1889
March 26
The Church Mission to Deaf-Mutes closes its East 13th Street house
On March 26, 1889, The Evening Telegram reported that the mission house at 220 East 13th Street had been discontinued. The mission had opened a home for aged and infirm deaf-mutes on a 156-acre farm near Poughkeepsie. The East 13th Street house then became a boarding house, and by 1953 it held sixteen furnished rooms.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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