34 Dominick Street House

34 Dominick Street | Hudson Square | built 1826

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1. 1826

   Builder Smith Bloomfield erects 34 Dominick Street and four neighbors as rental houses

   After three builders bought twelve lots from the Livingston family, they put up a row of Federal houses on the south side of Dominick Street, finished around 1826. Mason Smith Bloomfield built Nos. 28 through 36, two-and-a-half-story, 20-foot-wide homes for middle-class families. He leased them rather than selling them.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1850

   August

   A pail of boiling pitch left in the attic burns the roof off 34 Dominick Street

   In August 1850 an attic room was being patched against a leak, and a pail of pitch was left boiling over a furnace. Firemen reached the house quickly, but the roof burned and water damaged much of the building. The tenant, Benjamin Ellis, was a school official who had been president of the City Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment when it formed in 1842.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1866

   James M. Horton raises the attic to a full story and adds an Italianate cornice

   Horton, who had sold his share in a provisions firm that year and apparently went into the milk business, bought the house in 1866 from Smith Bloomfield's estate. He raised the attic to full height, added an Italianate cornice and a matching brownstone lintel over the door, and swapped the paneled Federal doors for double doors. A change in the brick color still shows where the new floor begins.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1930

   January 13

   Assembly Democratic leader Peter J. Hamill dies at 44 after living at 34 Dominick Street

   Hamill, a Tammany Democrat and Assemblyman since 1916, bought the house in 1923 and became Tammany leader of the First Assembly District two years later. He was chosen Democratic leader in the State Assembly in late 1929. After an appendicitis attack at home he died after surgery on January 13, 1930; Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was among 2,000 mourners at his funeral.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 2012

   March 27

   The Landmarks Commission designates 34 Dominick Street over its owner's opposition

   At the Commission's hearing on June 28, 2011, four speakers backed designation, including the New York Landmarks Conservancy and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Robert Neborak, a co-owner, spoke against it on behalf of the owners. The Commission designated the house an individual landmark on March 27, 2012.

   Source: media.villagepreservation.org

Further reading

• The Peter J. Hamill House - 34 Dominick StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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