23 St Marks Place

New Brighton | 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.

1906
John and Mary Hayes build a stone-and-shingle house on land bought from George W. Allen
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In July 1906 the lumber merchant George W. Allen and Mary Allen sold this lot, once part of Augustus Prentice's large nineteenth-century property, to John J. and Mary A. Hayes. The house was standing by the time the 1907 map appeared. A Hayes descendant, E.M. Hayes, still owned it when the district was designated and told researchers that the family had built it.
“The current owner of the building, Mr. E.M. Hayes, is a descendant of John and Mary Hayes; he has stated that family members built the dwelling.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
John J. Hayes divides his house into two units, and it later becomes a multiple dwelling
In the 1920s the house lost its original full-width porch to the curved, colonnaded porch that survives, which reused columns from the earlier one. John J. Hayes converted it into two units in 1928-29. Elizabeth Hayes owned it in 1946, the year asphalt shingles went onto the roof. The family's house has since become a multiple dwelling.
“In 1928-29 John J. Hayes had the building divided into two units [ALT 117-1928] and in 1946…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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