260 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1899

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.

1843
A Greek Revival row house is built at 260 East 7th Street
Tax records indicate that 260 East 7th Street, a three-story Greek Revival row house owned by James B. Sparrow, is built in 1842-43 along with several others on the block. The block between Avenues C and D is part of the Dry Dock District, later known as Political Row for the Eleventh Ward political figures who live there.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1864
City Inspector Francis I. A. Boole moves into the house
Francis I. A. Boole, a former councilman and alderman who now serves as City Inspector, moves into 260 East 7th Street in 1864. During the two years the Booles live there, they take in a boarder, Harriet Ray, whom city directories list as a clairvoyant.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1891
Sigmund Kraus buys the house from Lina Rossman
Lina Rossman, widow of jeweler Nathan Rossman, who bought 260 East 7th Street in 1867, sells it in October 1891 to Sigmund Kraus for $16,500. Kraus almost certainly replaces the entrance doors with modern multi-paneled ones. Apart from those doors, the exterior changes little in the decades that follow.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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