29 Stuyvesant Street

East Village | built 1861

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.

1858
August 1
Hamilton Fish sells the Stuyvesant garden land to Mathias Banta, with a ban on tenements and factories
Acting as trustee for his sisters' shares of the Stuyvesant-Fish estate, Hamilton Fish conveys the garden land beside his house at 21 Stuyvesant Street to lawyer Mathias Banta for $35,000. The deed bars breweries, slaughterhouses, stables, factories and any tenement house from being built on it. Banta has the land surveyed and lotted, and building begins in 1859; the lot that becomes No. 29 is one of seven rowhouse plots on Stuyvesant Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1861
An Anglo-Italianate rowhouse is completed for the estate of J. A. Aguilar as part of the Stuyvesant Street 'Triangle'
No. 29 is finished in 1861 and assessed at $7,000, above the $6,000 to $6,500 listed for most of the other Stuyvesant Street houses in the group. Together with Nos. 23 through 35 and the East 10th Street houses around the corner, it reads as one grand building rather than a string of small houses, with a stone-faced, truncated prow at the point of the triangle. The design is attributed to James Renwick Jr., though no document confirms it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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