36 Dominick Street House

36 Dominick Street | Hudson Square | built 1826

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1. 1826

   February

   Builder Azariah Ross lives at 36 Dominick Street while advertising his own houses nearby

   Smith Bloomfield built 36 Dominick Street as a rental in the 1826 row of twelve Federal houses. Azariah Ross, who built Nos. 38 through 46, was living here by February 14, 1826, when he advertised his houses for sale. In 1827 he was appointed Fire Warden of the Eighth Ward.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1829

   May 1

   English actor Thomas Hamblin and his wife, actress Elizabeth Blanchard, move into the house

   According to a 2018 biography of Hamblin, he and Blanchard rented 36 Dominick Street starting May 1, 1829. Born in 1800, he first performed in New York at the Park Theatre. The next year he began managing the Bowery Theatre, where he gave leading roles to American actors instead of British imports.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1866

   March 1

   Milk dealer Ira C. Horton raises the roof and adds an Italianate cornice, then sells two years later

   The Hortons bought the house in 1866, and the Superintendent of Buildings recorded work starting March 1 to raise the structure. The attic became a full floor, the windows got molded lintels, the doorway a pediment and the roofline a bracketed cornice. They sold to Charles and Ann Eliza Applegate in 1868, so the project may have been a quick resale.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1922

   Demolition of the 1826 Dominick Street row begins, leaving only four houses

   St. John's Park was long gone, and the Holland Tunnel and the elevated Miller Highway were about to reshape the area. In 1922 houses along the Dominick Street row began coming down, and of the twelve built in 1826 only four, including No. 36, remained. John Geagan, who had lived in the house for over thirty years, sold it in 1919.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The Ira and Fanny Horton House - 36 Dominick StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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