Charles M. Mather House

249 East 13th Street | also 249A East 13th Street | East Village | built 1900

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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. 1863

    Charles M. Mather has an Italianate house built on East 13th Street

    Clerk Charles M. Mather had this three-story Italianate house built of orange brick with brownstone trim, its entrance set beneath an arched, pedimented doorway. He and his wife Frances moved in after leaving Henry Street downtown. The house stood at 153 East 13th Street until the block was renumbered in 1868, when it became 249.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1890

    June 21

    Moses Joshua Weil, a leader of the neighborhood's Jewish community, dies at 54

    German immigrant Moses Joshua Weil and his wife Fannie Reis had bought the house in the early 1880s and raised six children there. Weil held leadership posts in Jewish organizations and worshipped at the Fifteenth Street Temple. He died suddenly at 54, and his funeral drew mourners from both the Jewish and Christian communities.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1891

    Sculptors Karl Bitter and Giuseppe Moretti share a studio behind the house

    Architect Max Schroff designed a two-story brick studio, built to resemble a converted stable, in the rear yard for sculptors Karl Bitter and Giuseppe Moretti, who carved their names into its stone. The two young immigrants worked there for only about a year before moving on: Bitter went on to design Trinity Church's bronze doors, and Moretti later created the giant cast-iron statue Vulcan.

    Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

  4. 1970

    Conductor Harry Saltzman buys the house and restores it to a single-family home

    Harry Saltzman, founder of the Sine Nomine Singers, purchased the house after decades as a rooming house and converted it back into a single-family residence with a basement apartment. He married singer, flutist, composer and painter Barrett Cobb in a room on the second floor. The couple also came to own the sculptors' studio building next door.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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