George Warner House

300 Elizabeth Street | NoHo | built 1828

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The lot about 1940
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The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1828

    George Warner builds a Federal house at 300 Elizabeth Street with carved Greek-key lintels

    Around 1828 George Warner put up a two-and-a-half-story home here, when merchant-class houses were rising near the mansions of Bond and Lafayette Streets. It had Flemish-bond red brick on a rusticated brownstone basement and a fluted-column entrance. Its carved brownstone lintels ended in a Greek-key pattern, an early sign of the architectural fashion about to sweep the city.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1852

    August 3

    Banker Richard F. Carman, who lives at 300 Elizabeth, leads a committee against a Broadway railroad

    Richard F. Carman, a banker and one-time Assembly candidate, made the house his town home by 1845 and kept a 46-acre summer estate near Fort Washington. In 1852 he became president of a committee formed to fight a proposed railroad up the middle of Broadway. At a meeting on August 3 it drafted resolutions for the Common Council arguing the tracks would ruin the street as a fashionable promenade.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1892

    April 27

    A grandstand collapse at the Grant's Tomb ceremony traps Charles Taylor of 300 Elizabeth Street

    Charles Taylor, a millinery salesman who lived in the house, joined the thousands at the cornerstone laying of Grant's Tomb. When the ceremony ended, the crowd's rush to leave collapsed part of a grandstand and trapped him. The New York Times named him as living at 300 Elizabeth Street, and an ambulance surgeon found a Pott's fracture of the ankle that he expected to cause no serious result.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1922

    September 10

    Egidio Pelletieri buys 300 Elizabeth Street and has its attic raised to a full floor

    The New-York Tribune reported that Mabel Taylor had sold the house, her family's home for over three decades, to Egidio Pelletieri. He hired architect Ferdinand Savignano to turn the attic into a full story, and the house gained a cellar club room, a doctor's office at parlor level and a dwelling above. Savignano matched the size of the lower windows and repeated the paneled lintels, and the Pelletieri family stayed in the house through 1960.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1977

    China Mott Associates converts 300 Elizabeth Street into an artist studio and apartments

    After Rose Cianci owned the house from 1966, China Mott Associates bought it in 1977 and made an artist's studio of the basement, with one apartment on each of the upper floors. A further renovation in 1988 followed, and the house has since held a duplex on the upper two floors, a single residence at parlor level and offices in the basement. The original Federal door was removed sometime after 2003.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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