Colonnade Row (428 Lafayette Street)

428 Lafayette Street | NoHo | built 1833

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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. 1804

    John Jacob Astor buys the Vauxhall Garden plot in 1804, and its tenant keeps paying rent for twenty years

    Astor bought the land between Great Jones Street and Astor Place in 1804 for $45,000. A Frenchman named Delacroix ran an entertainment hall there called Vauxhall Garden and kept paying rent for another 20 years. By 1826 Lafayette Place had been extended north to Astor Place, and the marble houses of La Grange Terrace later rose on this earlier site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1833

    La Grange Terrace opens with central heating, indoor toilets and running water in marble houses

    Each 27-foot-wide house in the marble row had 26 rooms, a two-story Corinthian colonnade out front, and a 15-foot front yard. The owners had central heating, indoor toilets, a bathing room and hot and cold running water, comforts that would not be common for almost a century. Prisoners at Sing Sing cut the columns, and the doors were mahogany hung on silver hinges.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    Dr. Fenton Turck hides a bronze statue of William the Silent in his laboratory basement here

    After buying a bronze statue of William the Silent in Europe, Chicago-trained physician Fenton Turck felt guilty about its cost and hid it from his wife in the basement of his laboratory at 428 Lafayette Street. It stayed there for eight years, from 1920 to 1928. He then donated it to Rutgers, anonymously through the Holland Society of New York, and it was dedicated there in 1928.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1965

    September 21

    More than ten witnesses speak for landmarking La Grange Terrace, and the owner of 428 does not object

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission heard the case for designating 428 Lafayette on September 21, 1965. More than ten witnesses backed protecting this building and the rest of La Grange Terrace, and the owner wrote that he had no objection. A representative of the Washington Square Association called the row the last example of its kind of planned group housing.

    “More than 10 witnesses appeared and spoke in favor of designation of this building and the other buildings of La Grange Terrace.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 1995

    The Casper R. Callen Trust announces plans to restore 428 and 430 Lafayette, but the work stalls

    In 1995 the Casper R. Callen Trust, which owned 428 and 430 Lafayette Street, announced plans to restore the two buildings. According to Wikipedia the restoration has not happened, partly because of the cost. The houses had been subdivided into apartments and shops and were in poor condition when they were landmarked in 1965.

    Source: Wikipedia

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