224 West 10th Street

West Village | built 1848

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
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. 1847

    Three carpenter-builders put up 224 West 10th Street on land bought from a former mayor

    Carpenters Stephen C. Stephens, Abraham Demarest and Levi Onderdonk built Nos. 224 and 226 West 10th Street in 1847-48, as part of a row of three with No. 228, on lots bought from former mayor William Paulding Jr. The three-story brick Greek Revival houses carry unusual floral decoration on their cornices, and a 1926 alteration added a basement entrance at No. 224.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1861

    October 23

    Resident Matthew P. Bogert sits on the jury in the Savannah privateer trial

    By the early 1850s the house belonged to Matthew P. Bogert and his wife Matilda, who eventually had seven children. In 1861 Bogert served on the jury in the case of the crew of the Savannah, a ship seized by the Union Navy for acting on behalf of the Confederacy and charged with privateering. The trial opened October 23, 1861, and drew a great crowd to court.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1881

    July 5

    Police court officer John R. Hill, wounded in the Draft Riots, dies after years at 224 West 10th Street

    Officer John R. Hill, who joined the police in 1861 and was hurt during the 1863 Draft Riots, lived here with his wife Sinia and four children by the early 1870s. Moved to the First District Police Court in 1875, he died of pneumonia on July 5, 1881, aged 56. Sinia received a $300 police widow's pension and stayed in the house into the 1890s, taking in boarders.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1910

    November 10

    A boarder is shot by accident during the citywide teamsters' strike

    During a violent teamsters' strike in 1910, a Park & Tilford wagon driver named James Black fired his revolver at a mob that attacked him at West 49th Street. A ricochet hit Charles C. Polk, a tailor boarding at 224 West 10th Street, who was walking by. Polk was taken to Flower Hospital and recovered.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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