224 Hamilton Avenue

St. George | built 1907

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.

1904
Architect-builder Peter G. Veitch buys this lot, and a towered house apparently of his design follows
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Peter G. Veitch bought the lot from Charlotte Freylinghuysen in 1904, with deed covenants governing the size, placement, use and minimum cost of anything built there. Veitch, whose earlier work included the 1899 house at 48 Westervelt Avenue, appears to have designed both this house and its neighbor at No. 222, finished between 1904 and 1907. It has a corner tower with a pyramidal roof and fish-scale shingles in the gable; its open front porch was enclosed in the 1920s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Clerk William J. Martin's family moves in and stays for more than half a century
By 1925 the house was occupied by William J. Martin, a clerk, and his family. Members of the Martin family went on living here until the early 1980s, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1994 report on the St. George/New Brighton Historic District.
“No. 224 was occupied in 1925 by clerk William J. Martin and his family. Members of the family remained here until the early 1980s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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