313 East 58th Street

East Midtown | built 1857

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
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. 1857

    Mason Hiram Disbrow completes his own house at 313 East 58th Street

    Builder and mason Hiram G. Disbrow begins his own modest home in 1856 and completes it in 1857, a two-story house with Greek Revival touches in the doorway and bracketed cornice, and French doors in the parlor. His daughter Emma is born there in February 1860. By the time she dies in March 1862, the family has moved to East 50th Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1928

    The Humane Society of New York makes the house its headquarters

    In April 1928 developer Milton Barkin buys 311 and 313 East 58th Street, and a nine-story apartment building is reported as planned for the site. The project does not go ahead, and 313 is instead bought as headquarters for the Humane Society of New York. Executive secretary Mae Colbert Liotta lives in the upper part of the house, and the society's mascot terrier, Paddy Reilly, is later honored for helping save a woman in Jamaica Bay.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1970

    The city designates 313 East 58th Street a landmark

    The house at 313 East 58th Street becomes a New York City landmark in 1970. The designation protects the exterior of Hiram Disbrow's 1857 house but not its interior details, which are later stripped out when the building is converted to a restaurant.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1981

    The Czech Pavillion restaurant becomes the disco Le Club

    Paul and Aja Steindler buy the house after the Humane Society leaves in 1974, gut the interior, and open the Czech Pavillion restaurant. In 1981 it becomes Le Club, which a newspaper calls the disco for New York's power elite. Le Club moves out in late 1996, and other restaurants follow.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2010

    Painter John Ransom Phillips buys the house as his home and studio

    In 2010 the artist John Ransom Phillips buys 313 East 58th Street for around $4.7 million as his residence and studio. According to the New York Times, he was drawn to the former dance floor and its skylights rather than to any surviving period interiors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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