Ahles House (39-26 213th Street)

39-26 213th Street | Bayside | built 1901

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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. 1944

    Schoolteacher Margery Plimpton rents 39-26 after the Crouch and Callis families

    After the house was divided into two apartments, banker Robert Crouch's family moved into 39-26 and by the late 1930s or early 1940s shared the building with the family of advertising executive Ted Callis. Elementary school teacher Margery Plimpton lived at 39-26 from 1944 to 1947, the year the Hollmanns bought the house.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1947

    Henry and Frieda Hollmann buy the Ahles House and settle in the 39-26 side

    In 1947 Henry Hollmann, a manager at an X-ray equipment company, and his wife Frieda Ziegler Hollmann bought the house and lived in the half numbered 39-26 213th Street. Frieda was an active member of the Bayside Historical Society. Their son Bruce Ziegler Hollmann took over the house in 1994 and sold it in 2007 to a tenant who had lived there for many years.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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