348 West 23rd Street

Chelsea | built 1900

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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. 1885

    June 27

    C. P. H. Gilbert is hired to remodel the house into a Queen Anne apartment building

    The Real Estate Record and Guide reports that architect C. P. H. Gilbert will convert the 25-foot-wide house into a four-story apartment building at a cost of $25,000. Gilbert, about 24 and recently back from the mining towns of the West, is early in his New York career. His Queen Anne facade combines brick, stone, and terra cotta, with sunbursts and carved stone panels on the angled bay.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1897

    Magistrate Clarence W. Meade is living at No. 348

    By 1897, Clarence W. Meade, a Chelsea-born dry goods merchant and former Port Warden, lives here with his wife. That year he is among the first city magistrates, a post paying $7,000 a year. His wife, a daughter of the actor Charles M. Walcot, collects art in the apartment until she dies of stomach cancer in November 1900.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1960

    Photographer Don Snyder has his studio here in the 1960s

    The Place Matters census lists 348 West 23rd Street as the site of the studio of photographer Don Snyder in the 1960s. The listing gives no more specific dates for his time here.

    Source: Internet Archive

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