32 Westervelt Avenue
New Brighton | built 1882
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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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- 1885
Clerk William A. Lentilhon moves into the Wilks double house
In 1885 William A. Lentilhon, a clerk, left one of Dr. Walser's houses on Westervelt Avenue for the Wilks double house at Nos. 30-32. Arthur and William Rodewald also rented here in the 1880s. In the 1890s the occupants included mechanical engineer Leopold A. Camacho and coal merchant Edward B. Arnold.
- 1898
A wide front porch is added to the Romanesque Revival double house
Between 1894 and 1898 the brick double house gained the porch that now runs across its front, reached by two sets of wooden steps; its paired posts are linked by ogee-arched brackets and panels pierced with quatrefoils. The mirror-image facade itself borrows from commercial buildings of the day, with red pressed brick, corner pilasters, corbeled brickwork and round-arched third-story windows tied together by stone bands.
“The present porch across die facade, added to die structure between 1894 and 1898, is approached by two sets of wood steps.”
- 1925
Delia Keane and her musician daughters live at No. 32
By 1925 No. 32 housed several households: Fritz Blumenauer, who was an assistant manager at a commission house; Edwin Brengle, a lawyer; Paul F. Schwarz, who managed a department at a chemical factory; and Delia Keane with her daughters, who were professional musicians. The building was still divided into apartments when the Landmarks Preservation Commission described it.
“…and Delia Keane and her daughters, who were professional musicians, in No. 32. The structure presently contains several apartments.”
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