41 Charlton Street
Hudson Square | built 1827
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- 1827
Builder Thomas Parker puts up seven matching brick rowhouses on Charlton Street, No. 41 among them
In 1827 the builder Thomas Parker raised seven matching two-and-a-half-story brick rowhouses along the newly opened stretch of Charlton Street between MacDougal and Varick Streets, and No. 41 was one of them. Marble stoops, double-doored entrances and stepped lintels set them above the plainer houses going up nearby. Wrought-iron newels at the stoops are topped with pineapples and acorns, motifs that in that period stood for welcome and strength.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1831
The house and its Trinity Church ground lease go to auction, billed as a genteel address opposite Richmond Hill
On January 20, 1831, the house and its lot lease were sold at auction. The Evening Post notice called it a desirable location for a genteel family, opposite the Richmond Hill House, with a river view, a nearby market and a well of good water in the back area two feet from the kitchen. The lot belonged to Trinity Church, so the buyer would own the building but pay ground rent, with 35 years left on the lease. Eugene L. Bell bought it and died in July 1833; his funeral was held in the house.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1892
Officer George Davis, taken ill on duty, is brought to Dr. Nolan's office here and dies on the way home
On August 2, 1892, police officer George Davis fell ill while on duty and was taken to the medical office of Dr. John P. Nolan at 41 Charlton Street. He died in a cab on the way home, and newspapers reported that the doctor was said to have called his illness not serious. A reporter found Nolan indignant that evening: he said he had diagnosed acute cholera morbus, given Davis medicine and urged him to go to a hospital. Nolan had rented space in the house since about 1889 and kept his office there even after marrying in 1906.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1944
Herald Tribune political reporter Edwin S. McIntosh, who lived here, dies at 55
Edwin S. McIntosh, a political reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, lived at 41 Charlton Street in the early 1940s. He had come to New York in 1919 to join The Sun, covered the Sacco-Vanzetti execution, and by one obituary's count reported on nearly every political campaign of the previous fifteen years. He fell ill in the summer of 1943 and died at Lenox Hill Hospital on January 12, 1944, at 55.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2010
Oliver Stone films 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' here as the home of Carey Mulligan's character
Art dealer Lisa Spellman bought the house in 1999 for $2.7 million. In 2010 she let Oliver Stone film at 41 Charlton Street for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, where it stood in for the home of the character played by Carey Mulligan. Spellman told The New York Times that year that earlier residents included Robert Morgenthau, the longtime district attorney of Manhattan, who held his wedding in the house, and the fashion designer Catherine Shannon, a great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1827 William Cleary House - 41 Charlton StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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