Icabod Price House

35 Walker Street | also 35A Walker Street, 35B Walker Street | Tribeca | built 1808

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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. 1808

    Mason Icabod Price completes a brick-fronted Federal house at 35 Walker Street

    Icabod Price, a mason by trade, bought the empty lot in 1805 and most likely built the house himself. It was a frame dwelling of two and a half stories with a Flemish-bond brick front, brownstone trim and Federal-style lintels, finished in 1808, a year before Walker Street officially opened. A second house stood in the rear yard, reached by a narrow side path, and Price's family was still renting part of the property to another household in 1816.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1836

    Mrs. Lockwood's Female Seminary teaches girls in the house

    By 1836 the house at 35 Walker Street held Mrs. Lockwood's Female Seminary, a school for girls at a time when few women could get any higher education. The idea of the female seminary had only taken hold around 1820. The school proved short-lived and vanishes from city directories after 1837, and the building went back to being a boarding house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1845

    Madame Durand teaches French from her rooms at 35 Walker Street

    Madame L. Manesca Durand rented rooms upstairs and taught French there. She was the daughter of Jean Manesca, remembered as the first modern foreign-language teacher in America, and she taught by his oral system. In November 1845 she advertised an evening class for gentlemen and a separate morning class for ladies in the New-York Daily Tribune, giving her address as 35 Walker Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1867

    Owner Peter Longley has architect Michael Dooley join the front and rear houses

    In 1867 owner Peter W. Longley hired architect Michael Dooley to combine the front house with the one behind it and to raise the front building to match a newly altered street grade. The Landmarks Preservation Commission thinks the Italianate bracketed cornice probably dates from this work, and the cast-iron storefront may be from the same time. By 1869 a firm of dress-trimming importers, Haiges & White, was a tenant.

    “…had architect Michael Dooley join the front and rear buildings and raise the level of the front building…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 1894

    May 2

    Saloon keeper Gottlieb Grob is found murdered in a case that is never solved

    Gottlieb Grob ran a saloon in the old restaurant space at 35 Walker Street in the 1890s. On May 2, 1894 he was found dead in his William Street apartment, his skull crushed and his throat cut, with only his watch missing. Police looked at his brother-in-law Jacob Staub, who was reported to owe him money, but Staub said he owed only $90 and had not seen Grob in two months. The murder was never solved.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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