39 Charlton Street
Hudson Square | built 1827
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1830
Merchant Reuben Vose lives at 39 Charlton Street in the 1830s and later writes about Lincoln and Hamlin
Reuben Vose, a merchant born in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1796, lived at 39 Charlton Street for much of the 1830s with his wife, Sarah, and their two children, Sarah Louise and John Gorham. He had married Sarah F. Hunting in 1825. The family left the street two decades before 1860, the year Vose wrote Life and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1884
Liquor dealer Patrick McKenna buys the house he has rented since 1876 for $4,500
Patrick McKenna, who gave his trade as liquors and had businesses at 109 and 172 Varick Street, moved to 39 Charlton Street in 1876 as a tenant of John W. Ferdon, a landlord from Piermont, New York. His widowed mother-in-law, Mary Meehan, died in December 1877, and her funeral was held in the house before a requiem mass at St. Anthony of Padua. In February 1884 McKenna bought the house from Ferdon for $4,500, and the family stayed into the early 1900s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1920
Poet Marianne Moore and her mother live briefly at 39 Charlton Street in 1920
According to Daytonian in Manhattan, the poet Marianne Moore and her mother lived briefly at 39 Charlton Street in 1920. The following year the architects Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde remodeled the house for several households, and Architectural Record published a photograph of its preserved Federal doorway to show how an old house could be converted with care.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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