Nicholas William Stuyvesant House

44 Stuyvesant Street | East Village | built 1795

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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. 1795

    January 31

    Nicholas William Stuyvesant builds a house in time for his wedding

    Nicholas William Stuyvesant built the Federal-style house on land plotted from the family estate, completing it as his marriage to Catherine Livingston Reade took place on January 31, 1795. The couple raised nine children there over the next 23 years before relocating to the Stuyvesant family's Bowery House in 1818.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1878

    November 8

    Boarders vanish after the Alexander T. Stewart grave-robbery scandal

    Three lodgers renting a second-floor room fled the house by hack at 7:10 a.m. on November 8, 1878, the morning that merchant Alexander T. Stewart's grave was found robbed. Investigators later suspected the boarders in the theft, part of a case not resolved until a $25,000 ransom was paid for the remains in 1884.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1885

    May 6

    Reformer John Brooks Leavitt buys the Stuyvesant house

    Attorney John Brooks Leavitt, a leader of the Good Government Movement who campaigned against Tammany Hall corruption, purchased the house for $14,200 on May 6, 1885. He lived there with his wife, the former Mary Keith, and hosted a Kenyon College alumni meeting there in 1891; by 1911 he had opened the house as a clubhouse offering inexpensive lodging to recent Kenyon graduates.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1926

    April

    Owners convert the house into a four-story apartment building

    In April 1926 the owners hired architect Hubert Lucas to convert the 131-year-old row house into a four-story apartment building for $6,000. The property later reverted to a single-family home, and by 2022 it was marketed as an $8.9 million residence retaining much of its original fireplaces and woodwork.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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