35 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1833

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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. 1833

    Thomas E. Davis and Louis Wilcox build a Federal row house on East 7th Street

    Thomas E. Davis and Louis Wilcox begin a row of Federal-style houses on East 7th Street in 1832, finishing them the next year at a value of $6,000 each. Number 35 is 25 feet wide, with orange Flemish-bond brick, three stories tall over an English basement. Small carved brackets support the window sills, a denticulated cornice caps the facade, and the round-arched doorway has a faceted keystone. By the mid-1840s the fur merchant William G. Edwards and his family live there.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1850

    Writer Richard Burleigh Kimball moves into the house

    The attorney and writer Richard Burleigh Kimball and his wife Julia move into the house in 1850, after the Edwards family leaves. A Dartmouth graduate, he knew Charles Dickens and Washington Irving, among others, and went on to found the town of Kimball, Texas and build part of the state's first railroad. His books include "Cuba and the Cubans" (1850) and "To-Day in New York" (1870).

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1909

    Harrison and Sackheim add a fourth floor and a pediment

    Jennie Dorf, who buys the house in 1906, hires the architectural firm Harrison & Sackheim three years later to raise it from three floors to four. They give the entrance a Renaissance-inspired triangular pediment. The work costs the equivalent of more than $175,000 today, and the proportions of the original 1832 arched doorway survive within the altered entrance.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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