228 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1900

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.

1868
By 1868, real estate agent Robert Laird's family occupies the Greek Revival house
Built in the late 1850s as a 25-foot-wide, three-and-a-half-story Greek Revival house, the building is first numbered 75 Tenth Street and renumbered 228 East 10th Street in 1868. Its first-known occupant, real estate agent John Rogers, ran his business from the house. By 1868 another agent, Robert Laird, and his family occupy it.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1881
July
Resident Robert Laird helps protect a neighbor's roof during an Irvington fire
Robert Laird, who lives at 228 East 10th Street, is at the family's summer home in Irvington-on-Hudson when a large fire breaks out in a nearby horticultural building and threatens the house of Police Captain McCullagh. Laird and a friend, John F. Dinkle, are found exhausted after sweeping and soaking the captain's roof. Laird dies around 1881, and his son sells the East 10th Street house in 1884.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1885
March
Architect Frederick Jenth raises the house's attic to a full story
Christian Hummel, who bought the house from Robert Laird's son John for $16,250 the year before, hires architect Frederick Jenth to raise the attic to a full story. The work also adds sheet-metal cornices over the windows and an up-to-date neo-Grec cornice at the top.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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