415 Westervelt Avenue, Horton's Row
415 Westervelt Avenue | St. George | built 1882
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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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- 1888
Two Pattens keep offices here while Oscar and Bella Schwedersky live in No. 415
The 1888 Webb's Consolidated Directory shows this house shared by unrelated occupants. Joseph Patten, a clerk, and William Patten, a real estate agent, had offices here, while Oscar Schwedersky, also a clerk, lived here with Mrs. Bella Schwedersky. Two years earlier William Patten had been keeping his office at No. 9 of the row.
“Joseph Patten, clerk and William Patten, real estate agent, had offices at No. 415, and Oscar Schwedersky, clerk and Mrs. Bella Schwedersky…”
- 1922
Albert and Flora Lederman buy No. 415, their family's first home on Horton's Row
Albert I. and Flora B. Lederman, German immigrants, bought this house in 1922; the family had already lived here with their children in 1915 before moving to No. 413 and then No. 417. Albert was an electrical contractor. The Ledermans owned Nos. 411 to 417 until 1960, and the four houses were split among separate owners in 1982.
- 2009
The city names 415 Westervelt a landmark as part of the surviving Horton's Row
On September 15, 2009, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the house, one of only four intact survivors of the twelve identical brick houses Harry L. Horton built around 1880-82. The commission noted that the row's length and hilltop position made it a neighborhood landmark, and that attached masonry houses for middle-class tenants were rare on Staten Island.
“No. 415 Westervelt Avenue is one of the only four intact houses that survive.”
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