390 Van Duzer Street House
390 Van Duzer Street | Silver Lake | built 1835
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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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- 1834
Richard G. Smith buys the lot and builds a house in the new village of Stapleton
Minthorne Tompkins and his partner William J. Staples purchased a tract from Cornelius Vanderbilt and his family in 1833 and divided it into the village of Stapleton. In October 1834 they sold this lot to Richard G. Smith, who soon had the house built. Smith's wife, Susannah M. Tompkins, was Minthorne's sister.
“…in October, 1834,the lot of 390 Van Duzer Street was sold to Richard G. Smith, who had the house built soon afterwards.”
- 1835
A Corinthian portico meets a Dutch spring-eave on a Greek Revival house
The frame house, put up around 1835, keeps its original kitchen wing. Four Corinthian columns climb two stories to an entablature beneath a projecting spring-eave, a feature of Dutch Colonial building in New Netherland that Staten Island builders kept using into the 19th century. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called the mix a local variant of the Greek Revival found nowhere else.
- 1973
The city designates the house, among Stapleton's earliest, a landmark
At a July 24, 1973 hearing, four witnesses, the owner among them, spoke for protecting the house and none opposed it. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated it on December 18, 1973, calling it one of the first houses built in Stapleton and one of the last Greek Revival frame houses left in the area.
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