Henry P. Robertson House (Pavilion on the Terrace)
404 Richmond Terrace | also 414 Richmond Terrace | New Brighton | built 1835
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- 1835
Merchant Henry P. Robertson buys a Temple Row house for $6,000
Manhattan developer Thomas E. Davis built this Greek Revival house, the only survivor of six buildings he put up before joining other investors in the New Brighton Association in 1835. Merchant Henry P. Robertson bought it on October 19, 1835, for $6,000. It is also the last remaining house of Temple Row, the line of columned mansions that once stood along Richmond Terrace between Nicholas Street and Westervelt Avenue.
“No. 404 was sold to merchant Henry P. Robertson on October 19, 1835, for $6,000.”
- 1859
Silk dyer James Wilkinson buys the house, which later becomes the Windsor Hotel
Robertson sold No. 404 in 1859 to manufacturer James Wilkinson, whose Crabtree & Wilkinson silk dyeworks was among New Brighton's leading industries. By 1874 it and the neighboring house at 400-402 belonged to the Wilkinson estate and were in use as a hotel; in the 1880s the two were joined and renamed the Windsor Hotel. The connecting wing was torn down in 1896, when No. 404 became George J. Greenfield's home.
- 1924
Knights of Columbus enlarge their clubhouse with a rear meeting hall
The Richmond Council of the Knights of Columbus bought the house in 1910 as its clubhouse, and in 1924 hired Sibley & Fetherston to enlarge it. The firm filled in the side porches with frame wings, added a one-story meeting room sixty by forty feet at the rear, and covered the facade in shingles, while keeping the six-column fluted Doric portico. Architect Charles E. Fetherston's father, politician John J. Fetherston, had helped found the council.
- 1965
The old clubhouse becomes the Pavilion on the Terrace catering hall
The Columbian Club of Richmond County sold the building in 1965, and it was turned into the Pavilion on the Terrace, a catering hall. A second-floor fire in 1968 meant that some floor beams and window sash had to be replaced. In the early 1990s the north and west walls were covered in Dryvit. The hall's owners also acquired the lot next door at 414-418 Richmond Terrace as a parking lot.
“In 1965 the Columbian Club of Richmond County sold the building and it was converted to the Pavilion on the Terrace catering hall.”
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