30 Charlton Street
Hudson Square | built 1927
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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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- 1843
John Endicott, owner of 32 Charlton Street, helps found a pioneering charity for the poor
John Endicott, a businessman, helped start the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in 1843, among the earliest social service charities in the country. In the 1840s he owned the extra-wide house at 32 Charlton Street. That house was an earlier building on the site of today's 30 Charlton Street, and it later passed to Congressman Amos Cummings.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1880
Congressman Amos Cummings, a Medal of Honor winner, buys 32 Charlton Street and later three neighbors
Amos J. Cummings bought the house at 32 Charlton in 1880 and lived there until his death in 1902. He was a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient turned newspaper reporter, then a Tammany Hall sachem who served in Congress until 1902. He later bought the houses at 26, 28 and 30 as rental property. All four were earlier buildings on this site and were razed in the 1920s.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1921
Katharine Hepburn's brother Tom dies at 26 Charlton Street while visiting their aunt
In her writing, Katharine Hepburn recalled that Tom, her older brother and a sibling she felt especially close to, took his own life in 1921 while staying with an aunt at 26 Charlton Street. The house was an earlier building on the site of today's 30 Charlton Street. Congressman Amos Cummings had owned it around the turn of the century, and it was torn down in the late 1920s.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1929
A luxury apartment house opens at 30 Charlton Street just as the stock market crashes
After the four old houses at 26 through 32 Charlton were torn down, the red-brick apartment building at 30 Charlton was finished in October 1929, the month of the crash. It was planned as a luxury residence, with a concierge in white gloves in the lobby and a caterer on the premises for residents' dinner parties. Monthly rents ran from $50 to $100.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1930
The 1930 census finds pilots and musical comedy actresses at 30 Charlton, and a surgeon takes half the first floor
The 1930 census lists the building's tenants as lawyers, writers, teachers, clerks, mechanics, stenographers, artists and others. Two called themselves airplane pilots and three musical comedy actresses. With many apartments unlet as the Depression began, the landlord rented half of the first floor to a surgeon, Dr. Attilio Favorini. After he died in 1962 that space was divided into four apartments.
Source: Internet Archive
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