287 East 3rd Street
East Village | built 1900
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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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- 1837
Charles Dodge builds 287 East 3rd Street as a mirror to its neighbor
Charles Dodge, a ship carver, built the Greek Revival rowhouse at 287 East 3rd Street in 1837 on land once owned by Nicholas and Elizabeth Fish. It was paired with 285 next door as a mirror image, the two sharing a divided stoop. Each house is three stories and 22 feet wide above an English basement.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1919
Max Schechter buys 287 East 3rd Street
Philippine Beyerle, who received the title after her brother Jacob died in 1914, sold the house to Max Schechter in June 1919 for $10,000. It continued to be a rooming house with mostly German tenants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2010
Preservationists ask the city to landmark 287 East 3rd Street
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the East Village Community Coalition asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2010 to consider this house and its twin at 285. The request was denied. The house is the only one ever to stand on its lot and survives in excellent condition.
- 2019
A resident documents a Star of David in the entrance floor tiles
Photos from a resident in 2019 show floor tiles with a Star of David at the parlor entrance and the letters M S at the basement entrance. Village Preservation thinks the letters likely refer to owner Max Schechter. In this heavily Jewish part of the Lower East Side, builders sometimes used such symbols to signal that Jewish tenants were welcome.
Further reading
- An Astounding Survivor - The 1837 287 East 3rd StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- 287 East 3rd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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