Colonnade Row (La Grange Terrace)

432 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. 1833

    Julia Gardiner, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Washington Irving and Warren Delano all live in the row

    The row drew prominent New Yorkers during its years as a fashionable address. Julia Gardiner, who became First Lady as the wife of President John Tyler, lived there, as did Cornelius Vanderbilt and the author Washington Irving. Warren Delano also lived on the row, and John Jacob Astor III lived at No. 424 in the part of the terrace that no longer stands.

    “Julia Gardiner (who would become President John Tyler's First Lady) lived on Colonnade Row, as did Cornelius Vanderbilt, Washington Irving, and Warren Delano.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1851

    Israel Underhill turns two of the row's houses into a family hotel called The Oriental

    In 1851 Israel Underhill bought Nos. 43 and 45 of the row and converted the two houses into a family hotel he called The Oriental. It catered to well-off New Yorkers who wanted the prestige of a La Grange Terrace address without running a household and keeping their own servants.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1875

    The five southernmost houses of the row become the Colonnade Hotel with a Broadway entrance

    By 1875 the neighborhood had lost most of its wealthy households, and the southern five houses of La Grange Terrace were joined together as The Colonnade Hotel. The hotel's entrance was on Broadway rather than Lafayette Place. Those five houses were later demolished, leaving the four that stand today, which began to be called simply The Colonnade.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1917

    Five houses of the row are torn down for Wanamaker's garage and warehouse

    The row began to decline after the Civil War as wealthy families left, and its houses were split into apartments and shops. In 1911 the original stoops were removed and the entryways recessed because Lafayette Street was widened for the subway. Then in 1917 the other five houses of the nine, at 418-428 Lafayette Street, were demolished to build Wanamaker's garage and warehouse, leaving the four landmarked houses.

    “The other five buildings in the row, located at 418-428 Lafayette Street, were demolished in 1917 for the construction of Wanamaker's garage and warehouse.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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