Tobias Ryckman House
27 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1827
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1836
The Ryckman family owns the house by 1836, and its land rent has been paid in advance
By 1836 Tobias Ryckman's family owned the house, which Daytonian in Manhattan says was one of the residences John Jacob Astor I had built within the past decade on Trinity Church land. Because Astor had prepaid the land rent, the Ryckmans owed no ground rent. A January 1855 sale notice for the house still stressed that a lease was available for ten more years without ground rent.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1840
Fire from a cabinetmaker's shop in a rear yard spreads along Charlton Street and badly damages No. 27
About 6 a.m. on April 6, 1840 a fire began in a cabinetmaker's shop behind 19 and 21 Charlton Street. According to the New-York American, it spread to the brick houses at 19 through 25, which it said were destroyed, and that No. 27 was considerably injured, with damage estimated above $1,000 with the owner insured for $1,500.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1855
Produce merchant Benjamin Cooper raises the attic to a full third floor
After buying the house in 1855, Benjamin F. Cooper, a produce merchant, had the attic raised to a full story. His builder matched the brick color, and only a change from Flemish to running bond reveals the addition. The work also added a modified Italianate cornice, and The New York Times later described it as a three-story and basement house.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1875
Grocer Millard Fillmore Tompkins marries Mina Josephine Cooper and stays in the house
On April 29, 1875, Tompkins, a former boarder born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1853, married the 16-year-old Mina Josephine Cooper and stayed in the house. He had run away from home at 14, started in a Catherine Street grocery and built up a string of retail grocery stores. Mina ran the Spring Street store, and by 1887 he was reported worth some $500,000. He died in 1892.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Tobias Ryckman House - 27 Charlton StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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