East Village Tots
297 East 10th Street | East Village | built 1850
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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.
- 1846
Commercial merchant Walter F. Brush is the first owner of 297 East 10th Street
Walter F. Brush, a commercial merchant, was the original owner of 297 East 10th Street, one of the row houses of about 1846 attributed to Joseph Trench. Alteration permits record that in 1893 it lost its peaked roof and gained a full-height top story, a change made at no. 299 as well.
“Walter F. Brush of no. 297 was a commercial merchant…”
- 1903
Banker Adolf Mandel lives at 297 East 10th Street, then is convicted of forgery
Adolf Mandel, who ran a bank at 155 Rivington Street, lived at no. 297 from 1903 to 1912, and his daughter Carrie married at Delmonico's in 1912. Indicted in 1914 for forgery and for taking a $1,000 check when his bank was insolvent, he saw a witness against him die on the stand. Convicted in 1915, he served sixteen months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence before Governor Whitman granted clemency in 1916.
- 1938
Doctor I. Grossman's renovation removes the stoop at 297 East 10th Street in 1938
In 1938 the owner of 297 East 10th Street, a physician, renovated his medical office, and the building lost its stoop. A facade plaque still reads Doctor I. Grossman. The Landmarks report counts the change as part of a wave of 1920s and 1930s alterations that moved row-house entrances down to the former raised basement, often for institutional or commercial tenants.
“…no. 297 lost its stoop in 1938 when the building owner renovated his medical office (a plaque on the facade still reads “Doctor I. Grossman”)…”
Further reading
- 297 East 10th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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