47 Bond Street

NoHo | built 1830

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  1. 1830

    Merchant Isaac Green Pearson has 47 Bond Street built as an investment, and a dentist later lives there

    Built around 1830 as a three-and-a-half-story single-family house, 47 Bond Street was meant as an investment by the merchant Isaac Green Pearson, who himself lived on Prince Street. Its first tenant, the merchant David W. C. Olyphant, arrived a year later. The dentist Dr. Joseph Smith Dodge bought the house in 1836 and lived in it from 1839 until 1845.

    “…built as an investment for Isaac Green Pearson, a merchant who lived with his family and one free-black woman, presumably a servant, on Prince Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1873

    P. T. Barnum buys 47 Bond Street as an investment

    In 1873 the showman Phineas T. Barnum bought 47 Bond Street as an investment. Records for 1880 show five families living in the house, four of them with boarders. In 1883 Barnum sold it to the businessman George E. Kitching, who hired James M. Seaman to raise the house to four full stories and convert it to a multiple dwelling.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1926

    47 Bond Street becomes a store and factory, home to hat makers, rubber-stamp makers and a woolens dealer

    A 1926 record shows the building in use as a store and factory, and within two years its owner altered the facade of the first and second floors. From the 1920s to the 1970s tenants included garment, textile and hat firms, cleaners, and makers of rubber stamps and squeegees. Long-term occupants were A to Z Window Cleaning and Brilliant Floor Waxing (about 1939 to 1950) and the woolens dealer Frank Esrig (about 1945 to 1959).

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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