317 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1848

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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. 1848

    A Greek Revival house faces the unfinished Tompkins Square

    Investor Runyon W. Martin starts building two mirror-image Greek Revival houses at 317 and 319 East 10th Street in 1847, and builder James C. Whitlock may have designed them. They are finished in 1848, four stories tall and 25 feet wide, overlooking Tompkins Square, which is still under construction. No. 317 appears to start as a high-end boarding house, and an 1851 advertisement offers rooms with cold, warm and shower baths.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1876

    June 3

    Homeowner Andrew Carey joins a committee over Tompkins Square's neglect

    The state orders many of the square's mature trees removed in 1866 to make a parade ground for the Seventh Regiment, and the park later falls into poor condition. On June 3, 1876, a large crowd of residents meets in the square to complain, and The New York Times calls the ground an unsightly waste. A committee is formed that evening to press the Park Commissioners, and Andrew Carey, the owner of No. 317, is among its members.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1883

    June 2

    The outdated Greek Revival house is remodeled in Queen Anne style

    Andrew Carey files plans on June 2, 1883, to update his outdated house. Only the brownstone piers of the original Greek Revival entrance remain. The architect adds pressed-metal Queen Anne sills and lintels and replaces the cornice with a showy one more usual on a commercial building. The house next door is updated at the same time, and the two entrances now share paired entablatures.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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