36 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1836

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1836
Hubbard and Casey build a row of Greek Revival houses including No. 36
Hardware merchants Hubbard & Casey build five matching Greek Revival houses at 30 through 38 East 3rd Street, completed in 1836. Each has heavy brownstone doorway frames, Flemish-bond brickwork and iron fencing. No. 36 becomes the home of the Edward N. Ebbets family; Ebbets runs a dry-goods business, becomes an accountant at the New York State Bank by 1840 and adds real estate two years later.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1886
A Queen Anne makeover replaces the house's Greek Revival entrance
In 1886 the house is remodeled from Greek Revival into the Queen Anne style. The plain door frame gets heavy decoration, new oak doors and a peaked pediment, and the plain cornice is replaced by a bracketed one with a sunburst pediment. The original Greek Revival iron fence is kept.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1914
March 14
Firefighter Frank Rusch leads eight residents out of a Houston Street boarding house fire
Frank Rusch, a tenant of the house and a firefighter, is among the first to arrive at a blaze in a four-story boarding house at 63 East Houston Street on March 14, 1914. He leads at least eight residents to safety.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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