28 Bond Street

NoHo | built 1858

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.

1857
An Italianate house with a store goes up at 28 Bond Street on land held by the Wagstaff family
The house at 28 Bond Street was probably built around 1857 or 1858, either by the estate of David Wagstaff or by his son-in-law, the attorney William Lowerre. Wagstaff had bought the property in 1827, and the 1820 census recorded his household as including three enslaved people. Tax records first call it a three-story house and by 1860 describe four stories.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
Portraitists, picture dealers and publishers fill 28 Bond Street
No residents were recorded at 28 Bond Street in the 1880 census, and by 1890 the directories list only businesses. Among them were portraitists William H. Chidester & Son, the picture-and-frame dealer Charles Taber & Co., the publishers Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. and the book dealer William M. Baker. From 1929 into the early 1950s the tenants worked in the fur, hat, textile and plated-ware trades.
“…directories list only commercial firms: William H. Chidester & Son, portraitists; Charles Taber and Co., pictures and frames…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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