Gardiner-Tyler House

27 Tyler Avenue | West New Brighton | built 1901

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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. 1835

    Elizabeth Racey builds a Greek Revival house with a two-story Corinthian portico

    Mrs. Elizabeth Racey built the house around 1835 on land once farmed by Nathaniel Britton, and it first stood among white birches. The square, five-window-wide house had a cupola, and its front pediment rests on two-story fluted Corinthian columns made without bases. Inside, the curved back wall of the parlor faces a matching curved library wall, with closets fitted between them.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1868

    Former first lady Julia Gardiner Tyler moves in with her seven children

    Julia Gardiner married President John Tyler in 1844, and her mother, Juliana Gardiner, later bought this house and gave it to her. She rarely visited until 1868, when she arrived as the president's widow, Tyler having died in Richmond, Virginia in 1862. She and her seven Tyler children lived here, and Staten Island stayed her legal residence until she went back south in 1874.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1878

    Secretary of State William M. Evarts buys the former Tyler house

    In 1878 the house was bought by William M. Evarts, then Secretary of State under President Rutherford B. Hayes. Under President Andrew Johnson, Evarts had earlier been the nation's Attorney General.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1967

    April 12

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Gardiner-Tyler House

    The owners told the commission they supported designation, and two witnesses spoke for it at the September 13, 1966 hearing with nobody opposed. The commission cited the house's distinctive provincial take on the Greek Revival style and its role as the legal home of Julia Gardiner Tyler and her seven children, naming Block 305, Lot 76 as the landmark site.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 1984

    The Gardiner-Tyler House joins the National Register of Historic Places

    The clapboarded two-story frame house, built around 1835 with a four-column Corinthian portico, entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was the home of Julia Gardiner Tyler, widow of President John Tyler, from 1868 to 1874.

    “It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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