Gilliam S. Bogert House

33 Charlton Street | Hudson Square | built 1826

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The lot about 1940
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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. 1828

    A fire soon after he moves in destroys Gilliam S. Bogert's house and most of his family records

    Charlton Street was part of the Richmond Hill estate, which John Jacob Astor took over from Aaron Burr and developed. Gilliam S. Bogert, a flour merchant on Dey Street who traced his family to Dutch New Amsterdam, had just made his home at No. 33 when, a Holland Society yearbook later said, fire swept through soon afterward, destroying the house and most of the family's records. Unfinished houses nearby burned at dawn in October 1828, and Daytonian in Manhattan suspects that arsonists with a grudge against Astor also targeted No. 33. Bogert rebuilt the brick house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1852

    The house and 13 years left on its land lease sell at auction for $3,050 to the family's boarder

    Maria Bogert died in 1845 and her husband, Gilliam, in 1848, but their children stayed on in the house with boarders. In 1852 the house, along with the 13 years still left on its lease of the land, went under the hammer for $3,050, about $124,000 in 2024 dollars. The buyer was Francis Moore, a cabinetmaker who had boarded with the Bogerts since 1851. Moore lived here with his widowed mother, Fanny, who died in 1853 at 79, with a funeral held in the parlor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1868

    Carpenter William J. Bancker, in the house from 1868, most likely raises its attic to a full floor

    Around 1868 the house was occupied by William J. Bancker, whom city listings call a carpenter, and his family kept it for nearly two decades. He most likely added the full third floor and swapped the old areaway railings for stylish Italianate ironwork. The Flemish-bond brick was carried up into the new floor, an extra expense that was not structurally needed. An iron beam above the parlor level, filled in with running-bond brick in the early 1900s and visible in a 1941 photograph, may mark a lost bay window like one across the street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1896

    August 21

    The Italian Republican Club of the Third Assembly District keeps its quarters at the house

    By 1896 the house was rented to Italian-born immigrants by its owner, Richard Hennessy. Resident G. Siri and his wife, Mamie, lived there, and the New York Press reported on August 21 that the Italian Republican Club of the Third Assembly District had its quarters at No. 33. The paper said nearly all of the district's better-off Italians, plus some from elsewhere, were members, and that anyone wishing to join should apply to Siri at the same address.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1908

    March 30

    John W. Casey, who rented rooms here, dies after a judge fines jurors who settled a case by coin toss

    John W. Casey, an Irish-born master iron molder, was called for jury duty in February 1908, for the first time in 43 years in New York. After a day and a half the jury, pushed by a juror with a business deal to close, decided the case by flipping a coin. Justice Guy fined each juror $50, and Casey, a longtime Democratic Party figure, was so ashamed that he ate little, stopped working, lost nearly 100 pounds and took to his bed. He died on March 30, and The New York Times headlined the story "Grieved To Death Over Court Rebuke."

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1925

    March 20

    Political leader Antonio Dalessandro, chief deputy internal revenue collector, dies in the house

    Antonio Dalessandro, born in 1875, was among the tenants around 1925, and he died in the house on March 20 of that year. For about 20 years he had led the western half of the Second Assembly District, and he also served as chief deputy internal revenue collector. The Times noted that he had earlier been chief clerk to Timothy D. Healy in the old Coroner's office. Dr. Carlo Pascarelli, another well-known tenant of those years, stayed through at least 1931.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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