Dennison and Lydia Wood House

310 Spring Street | Hudson Square | built 1819

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1. 1819

   Ship captain Dennison Wood and his family move into their new house on Spring Street

   Wood bought a parcel from Trinity Church in 1818, and in 1819 he and his family settled into the new house on Spring Street, at the northern edge of the former marsh called Lispenard's Meadows. Wood piloted ships between New York and Savannah into the 1830s, and the Landmarks Commission notes that he profited from the cotton trade.

   Source: media.villagepreservation.org

2. 1847

   The Wood family saves the house from creditors and adds a storefront and third floor

   After Captain Wood died, apparently in 1846, creditors auctioned the house, but his relatives pooled their money so widow Lydia could stay. Son-in-law Samuel C. Brown bought it and later put it into a family trust. A third story and a storefront were added in 1847 to produce rental income, and although the new brickwork was not laid in Flemish bond, the lintels and other details were matched to the original.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1869

   Thomas Courtney's dry goods store takes over the ground floor and later becomes a shirt and overall maker

   Courtney's dry goods business moved into the storefront in 1869, replacing an earlier dry goods shop. It later grew into a maker of shirts and overalls and stayed in the building until 1950.

   Source: media.villagepreservation.org

4. 1897

   Courtney buys the building and adds a cast-iron pediment reading COURTNEY'S

   In 1897 Thomas Courtney bought the building after nearly thirty years in the store. He added a cast-iron pediment over the cornice that spelled out his name, and it survived for about a century. By 1904 part of the house also served as a sewing room, with shirtmakers listed in the phone book, and a blacksmith leased part of the ground floor.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 2012

   March 27

   The Landmarks Commission designates the Dennison and Lydia Wood House

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission held its hearing on June 28, 2011, with three people speaking in favor, representing the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the Historic Districts Council and the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The owner's representative took no position. The house was designated on March 27, 2012.

   Source: media.villagepreservation.org

Further reading

• The 1819 Captain Wood House -- No. 310 Spring StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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