261 Hamilton Avenue

also 261A Hamilton Avenue | New Brighton | built 1910

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1908
The Hulse family begins selling off the Escoriaza estate, which takes in this lot inside the block
This lot behind the houses of St. Marks Place, Hamilton Avenue and Westervelt Avenue belonged around 1900 to the estate of Ladislao de Escoriaza, a Manhattan merchant. The Hulse family bought the land from him in 1906 and began selling it in pieces in 1908. A two-and-a-half-story frame house went up here around 1910; its architect, builder and first owner remain unknown.
“The estate was gradually sold off in lots beginning in 1908 by the Hulse family, who had purchased the property from Escoriaza in 1906.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
A schoolmaster's family and a draftsman's family share the hidden house at 261A Hamilton Avenue
In 1925 the house, reached by a driveway from Hamilton Avenue, was home to two households: those of schoolmaster Curtis Osborn and of draftsman Patrick F. Lyons. The original two-story front porch came off sometime after 1937, and the walls have since been covered in asbestos shingles.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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