George Paulding House

24 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1826

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.

1830
Builder George Paulding, son of a captor of Major André, becomes the owner of the house
Around 1830 George Paulding became the owner of the house, and his wife Eleanor called it home for 45 years. Born in Peekskill in 1792, he was the son of John Paulding, one of three militiamen who captured Major John Andre during the Benedict Arnold treason plot. A contractor with an office on Gold Street, he was the Free Soil Democracy's candidate for assemblyman in 1848 and died in September 1855.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1878
The confectioner Adolph Ode moves in, tied to the candy firm Battais & Ode
Adolph Ode and his family lived here in 1878. He was in business with his father Casimir, who lived across the street at 19 Charlton Street, in the confectionery firm Battais & Ode. A 1905 newspaper account called Adolph a wealthy wholesale confectioner. The family was still here in 1896.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1919
William Sloane Coffin buys and gently renovates the house, then sells it a year later
In 1919 William Sloane Coffin and his wife bought 14 old houses in the neighborhood, including No. 24. They renovated lightly, joining the two dormers into one. The house was sold in the following year to Margaret F. Clarke, beginning a run of owners over the next two decades.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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