44 Carmine Street

West Village | built 1828

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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. 1828

    A New Jersey farmer who bought the lot for $950 is thought to have built this small Federal house

    Seba Bogart, a New Jersey farmer, paid $950 for the land in the summer of 1827 and sold it the next winter for $3,300. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says he possibly built the three-and-a-half-story brick Federal house. Insurance maps of the 1850s show a store on the ground floor. Around 1953-55 the two apartments were legally made three, and a second dormer was probably added then.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1840

    A plaster modeller living here wins the American Institute's gold medal for a model of the Merchants' Exchange

    By 1840 the house was occupied by Frederick Basham, whom a dictionary of American artists lists as a modeller, plaster worker, architect and draftsman. With Isaiah Rogers's new Merchants' Exchange on Wall Street nearly finished, he built a detailed plaster model of it and entered it in the American Institute's annual exhibition. The judges gave it the gold medal in the modelling category, and his plaster ornaments took second place. His landlord, the auctioneer Mordecai Myers, later moved his offices into the finished building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1864

    A boy losing his sight testifies to the State Senate about neglect at the New York Institute for the Blind

    The Dillon family leased the whole house in the early 1860s. Their son Edward had the optic nerve disease amaurosis and was placed in 1861 at the New York Institute for the Blind, while his father was away as a Civil War hospital steward. When the State Senate investigated rumors of mistreatment in 1864, Edward testified under oath that his sight had worsened, that he was kept out of the mat-making shop, that the smell of spoiled fish or corned beef sent him from the dining room unfed, and that leaking dormitory rooms left the boys sleeping in damp beds.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1911

    August 1

    A garment worker is ordered to post a $500 bond after proposing to a widow's daughter and threatening the family

    Jennie Spinoza, a garment-factory worker, rented rooms here in 1911 with her widowed mother, her sister and her brother-in-law. A co-worker, Joseph Nuzzio, called at the house and asked the mother for Jennie's hand, and was turned away. On August 1 the family told Magistrate Breen in Tombs Court that he had threatened to blow up the house and said the Black Hand would come for them. Nuzzio denied it, and the judge required a $500 bond that he would stay away from the family.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1915

    A founder of the Atlantic Macaroni Company moves his family into the building

    By 1915 Charles Casazza was living here with his family. He had founded the Atlantic Macaroni Company with Anthony Cuneo and Emanuele Ronzoni, and he held office as a director of the Nectar Co., Inc. In 1925 Charles and his wife, Annie, purchased the house from the Griener family, its owners for decades. Annie died in 1938 and Charles in December 1951, and the family sold the house in 1953.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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