301 Avenue of the Americas
also 5 Carmine Street | West Village | built 1832
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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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- 1832
Henry Campbell and John Parr build three separate houses at Sixth Avenue and Carmine Street
Henry K. Campbell erected a brick house at 3 Sixth Avenue around 1829, and about three years later John Parr put up two wooden dwellings, at 5 Carmine Street and 1 Sixth Avenue. By the 1850s all three had become mixed-use buildings, and Angelo Ortolano bought Parr's two in 1902. After Sixth Avenue was renumbered they became 301-303 Sixth Avenue. Architect Ferdinand Innocenti gave the group a new brick facade in 1965-66.
“John Parr built two frame dwellings at 5 Carmine Street and 1 and 1½ (now 301) Sixth Avenue c. 1832…”
- 1860
A chimney spark sets the bakery roof at 5 Carmine Street alight
At 10 a.m. on April 24, 1860, fire broke out on the roof of the frame building at 5 Carmine Street, which baker Thomas Turner owned and used as both bakery and home. A spark from the bakery chimney started it. The blaze caused about $50 in damage, while water damaged the big store next door at 1 Sixth Avenue by about $100. Both buildings were fully insured.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1871
Two tenants die in the Westfield ferry boiler explosion
Joanna Walmer and August Sturteman, tenants of No. 5, were both passengers on the ferryboat Westfield, at the Whitehall Street terminal, during the afternoon of July 30, 1871. Just before it pulled away, its boiler exploded, leaving 91 dead and 208 wounded by The World's count. The New York Herald listed Walmer among the dead on August 2 and Sturteman the next day.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1884
A lodger rushes to St. Vincent's Hospital sure he swallowed his false teeth, then finds them in his vest
Henry Simmons rented a room at No. 5 in 1884 and wore false teeth that his grandfather had worn for 30 years. On the night of December 17 he slept poorly, and the next morning he had head and stomach pains and found the teeth missing. Convinced he had swallowed them, he rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital. As the doctor prepared to search, he found them in his vest pocket and went home.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1926
Sixth Avenue's extension south renumbers the corner buildings as 301 and 303
In 1926, as work began on the Holland Tunnel, Sixth Avenue was extended to the south, and the city used eminent domain on properties in its path, as it had for Seventh Avenue in 1914. The extension forced a renumbering of the avenue, so Nos. 1 and 3 Sixth Avenue became 301 and 303. Shops stayed on the ground floors: an importer of egg timers at No. 5 Carmine and a seafood market and a variety store next door.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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- The Much Altered 5 Carmine StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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