John Valentine House

45 East 3rd Street | East Village | built 1841

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1841
John Valentine builds a Greek Revival house at 45 East 3rd Street
Around 1840 something, possibly a fire, befell the earlier house on this lot at what was then 45 Third Street. John Valentine soon built a new brick-faced, Greek Revival house there, two and a half stories tall with a brownstone stoop. Its doorway had sidelights and a transom, and the attic windows were originally shorter than those on the floors below. Valentine and his wife, Eliza, rented the house to tenants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1872
Cornetist Charles J. F. Sohst buys the house and teaches music there
Charles J. F. Sohst, a cornetist and composer who played in Theodore Thomas's orchestra, and his wife, Helen, bought 45 East 3rd Street in January 1872 for $11,000. He taught private cornet students in the house. From around 1876 they shared it with clarinetist Edward Boehm, a member of the New York Philharmonic Society, and his wife, Minna.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1881
Architect A. Schappel remodels the house in the Queen Anne style
Charles Sohst hired architect A. Schappel in 1881 to enlarge 45 East 3rd Street. Schappel built a two-story brick extension at the rear and raised the attic to a full story. He also added pressed-copper cornices over the windows and topped the house with a Queen Anne-style cornice that has swags in its frieze and a triangular pediment holding a sunburst.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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