411 Westervelt Avenue, Horton's Row

411 Westervelt Avenue | St. George | built 1882

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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. 1882

    Banker Harry L. Horton builds a row of twelve brick rental houses on the brow of Fort Hill

    Harry L. Horton, who ran a Manhattan banking and brokerage firm and served as president of the village of New Brighton, built Horton's Row between about 1880 and 1882. Its twelve matching brick houses were meant as affordable rentals for middle-class families, a rare type on an island of freestanding frame houses. With its length and its place on the brow of the hill, the row stood out in the neighborhood.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1886

    A miner, a cashier and a real estate agent's office share No. 9 of Horton's Row

    The 1886 Webb's directory is the first to show unrelated people living in one house of the row. Here at No. 9 it lists Daniel J. Gasherie, a miner, and Oscar W. Reed, a cashier, while real estate agent William Patten kept his office in the house. By 1888 an ice dealer, George Slack, had joined them as a third tenant and kept his office here.

    “Daniel J. Gasherie, miner, and Oscar W. Reed, cashier, are listed as living at No. 9 (No. 411)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1898

    June 15

    Newspaper ads offer the furnished house as a summer rental with a view, an hour from the city

    On June 15, 1898, notices placed by a W. Slack in the New York Tribune and the New York Times offered this furnished house for the summer months. The ads promised all improvements, an elegant view and a trip of under an hour to the city.

    “…on June 15, 1898, advertisements were run in the New York Tribune and New York Times seeking to rent the furnished house for the summer months…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1940

    Albert I. Lederman buys No. 411, completing his family's hold on four houses of the row

    Albert I. Lederman bought this house in 1940. His family, German immigrants who had lived in Nos. 415, 413 and 417 in turn, kept Nos. 411 through 417 until 1960. Those four houses stayed under one owner until 1982, when Robert Fitzsimmons and Isadore Ronenson sold them to separate buyers.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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