Dr. Lucien B. Wright House

45 MacDougal Street | SoHo | built 1847

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.

1855
Dr. Lucien B. Wright advertises a consumption remedy from his MacDougal Street home
Dr. Lucien B. Wright lived in the southernmost of three new Greek Revival houses at 45-49 MacDougal, and headed L. B. Wright & Co., a medicine maker at 409 Broadway. In May 1855 he advertised in The New York Times his Treatise Upon Tubercular Diseases, offering free consultations at his Broadway office or at this house between 7 and 10 a.m. The Wrights moved to West 84th Street in 1864.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1901
A string of doctors takes offices in the old row house
After the family of Henry W. Schroeder, who bought the house in 1873, and a boarding house of the 1890s, the building became a doctors' address. Dr. P. Giliberti practiced here from 1901 through at least 1908, followed by Dr. Attilio Favorini in 1910, who had moved from Broome Street after earning his medical degree in 1909. Dr. Cataggio had his office here by 1914.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1961
A 1961 renovation splits the house into apartments but keeps its Greek Revival doorway
A renovation completed in 1961 made a duplex of the basement and parlor floors and a single apartment on each floor above. The Greek Revival window details may have been removed then, though the original doorway with its sidelights and transom survived. A remodeling in 1970 turned the duplex into a triplex, and the house returned to single-family use in 1985.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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