Hugh McCutcheon House

349 West 4th Street | West Village | built 1868

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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.

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  1. 1868

    Hugh McCutcheon of Newburgh leases No. 349 from builder Matthew Kane and raises his family there

    Matthew Kane built a row of four Second Empire houses in 1868 and leased No. 349 to Hugh McCutcheon, who had just brought his family from Newburgh, New York. McCutcheon ran a fixtures store at 96 Bleecker Street, and his son Robert enrolled in the City University's collegiate course. The family leased the house at least through 1880, then moved to Indianapolis, where Hugh died in 1883.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1868

    No. 349 is the best preserved of the Jardine brothers' mansard row for Matthew Kane

    The Landmarks Commission reports that D. & J. Jardine designed the four houses of 1868 as a unit, with mansard roofs and a continuous roof cornice with modillions. It singles out No. 349 as the best preserved of the row, with a segmental-arched doorway under an entablature. The row was built for the sash maker Matthew Kane, who lived across the street at 317 West 13th Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1902

    September 15

    A boarder's former employer chases him down on an uptown streetcar over $1,800 missing from a firm

    Clarence Mallory, a roomer at 349 West 4th Street, had been a collector for the commission merchants S. Fish & Co. until he abruptly quit in September 1902. That evening his former boss, David Temmer, spotted him on an Eighth Avenue streetcar near 104th Street, jumped aboard and shouted for police. The firm was short $1,800, and Mallory was carrying a silver sugar bowl and spoons that he said he had bought at auction.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1961

    A 1961 renovation turns No. 349 back into a single-family house

    After the Kane heirs sold the row in 1899, No. 349 served as a boarding house for middle-class tenants, among them civil-service workers. Sanford M. Treat bought it in 1930, continued renting rooms and added a fire escape, and the original lintels were shaved off during this period. A renovation finished in 1961 restored it to one family and removed the fire escape, bringing it close to its 1868 look.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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