Wilson Hunt House

37 Harrison Street | Tribeca | built 1828

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1828

   Pearl Street merchant Wilson Hunt builds 327 Washington Street

   Wilson Hunt, a prosperous merchant with business on Pearl Street, built the Federal house then numbered 327 Washington Street. It was one of three matching houses on that street, with Nos. 329 and 331. After the 1970s move it was renumbered 37 Harrison Street.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1828

   The Hunt house keeps rare arched dormers and paneled stone lintels

   The landmark report singled out this house's arched dormers and paneled stone lintels as unusually well preserved. Paneled blocks at the front of the party walls hid the coping, which served as a firebreak. The ground floor had lost its original details when the house became a warehouse.

   “The arched dormers are particularly rare in their condition, as are the paneled stone lintels above the original window openings.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1969

   May 13

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the 327 Washington Street House

   On May 13, 1969, the Commission designated the Wilson Hunt House, then at 327 Washington Street, as a landmark. It was one of nine houses the report said would keep a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scale and profile found nowhere else in the city. Six of the Federal houses formed a group unique in New York.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

4. 1975

   Three Washington Street houses are moved to Harrison Street, creating a row of six

   Washington Market urban renewal threatened the area in the mid-1970s, but the Commission negotiated funding to move and restore nine Federal houses. The three Washington Street houses, including Hunt's, were moved to Harrison Street to join three already there. Oppenheimer, Brady & Vogelstein recreated lost facades, forming an L-shaped enclave.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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