Charlton Street stable (Gardner Hale studio)

25 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1827

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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. 1827

    A two-story brick stable is built in the rear yard of 25 Charlton Street

    James Marshall's 1826-27 house had a two-story brick stable behind it. The widow Catherine Stewart lived in the house in 1827 and apparently leased the stable to a furniture maker; an April 28, 1829 Evening Post notice announced an auction of the stock of a cabinetmaker giving up business.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1912

    March 17

    Sculptor Elisabeth Devare shows her marble-finish heads of Bible allegories at her Charlton Street studio

    A New-York Tribune advertisement of March 17, 1912 offered six Bible Allegories in Sculpture, 19-inch marble-finish heads by Elisabeth Petersen Pr. Devare, on view at her studio at 25 Charlton Street. She apparently used the former stable for the work. Her husband, Dr. Charles Devare, died that December.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1917

    Muralist Gardner Hale converts the old stable into a studio in the Italian manner

    The Record & Guide reported on March 10, 1917 that the estate of Thomas Rudden had leased the house and its rear building, a former stable, to Gardner Hale for five years. Hale, a painter who had studied in Rome, altered the rear building as a studio, and the Evening Post of June 16 called it one of very few in the city fashioned after the old Italian style.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1931

    December 29

    Gardner Hale, still keeping his Charlton Street studio, dies when his car goes off a California cliff

    Hale divorced in 1926 and remarried in 1929. Although he and his new wife moved uptown, he kept the studio in the rear building. The New York Times reported on December 29, 1931 that his body was found forty miles south of Santa Maria, California, at the foot of a 500-foot precipice, where his car had gone off the highway.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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