36 Westervelt Avenue

New Brighton | built 1874

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

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1874
Church builder Clement Newton puts up a brick double house as an investment
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Beatrice and Clement Newton built the orange-brick double house at 36-38 Westervelt Avenue before 1874, when a detailed map shows it with a porch across its front. Clement was a masonry contractor whose work included West Brighton's Church of the Ascension, completed in 1870, and the couple appear to have held No. 36 as an investment property. William Mercer, a federal claims agent, was one of the early occupants.
“No. 36 Westervelt Avenue appears to have been an investment property for Beatrice (d. 1907) and Clement Newton, a masonry contractor who built the Church of the Ascension…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
George Newton's family takes in a music teacher as a lodger
No. 36 was home from at least the late 1880s until the 1930s to the family of the Newtons' son George, who supervised the loan department at New York Life Insurance Company. In 1900 the household also had a lodger, the music teacher Albert Schack.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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