Humphrey Bogart House

245 West 103rd Street | also 251 West 103rd Street | Upper West Side | built 1891

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.

1899
December 25
Humphrey Bogart grows up in his family's brownstone on West 103rd Street
Belmont DeForest Bogart and Maud Humphrey moved into this rowhouse around 1899, and their son Humphrey, born on Christmas Day that year, grew up here. The household kept four servants, and daughters Frances and Katherine followed in 1901 and 1903. The family stayed until 1925. The house was divided into apartments in 1962 and is now owned by the city as low-income housing.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1899
Humphrey Bogart is born to a surgeon father and an illustrator mother
When Humphrey Bogart is born at 245 West 103rd Street, his father Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart is a Columbia-trained heart and lung specialist earning $20,000 a year, and his mother Maud Humphrey is a commercial illustrator for clients such as Ivory Soap, reportedly the country's highest-paid female illustrator at $50,000 a year. The family employs four servants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1925
The Bogart family leaves West 103rd Street for the East Side
The Bogart family, who raised Humphrey Bogart at 245 West 103rd Street, moves out in 1925 to a new home at 79 East 56th Street. By 1938 the West 103rd Street brownstone is subdivided into 13 furnished rooms, and it later becomes city-owned low-income housing.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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