48 Westervelt Avenue
New Brighton | built 1899
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1875
Jane Dobson's family lives in an earlier house next door at No. 46
Before No. 48 was built, Mrs. Jane Dobson owned this lot and the adjoining one at No. 46, where a house went up around 1869-74; both now form a single tax lot. In 1875 she lived there with her daughter Margaret and granddaughter Alice, the wife of John H. Eadie. Dressmaker Genevieve Merritt occupied it in 1915 and 1925, and it was torn down in the mid-1930s.
“In 1875 Mrs. Dobson, her daughter, Margaret, and her granddaughter, Alice (who had married John H. Eadie), resided in the house that no longer stands.”
- 1899
William A. Eadie hires Peter Veitch to design a house on his grandmother's land
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Jane Dobson sold both of her Westervelt Avenue lots to her grandson William A. Eadie in 1897. The next year he had architect Peter Veitch draw plans for a three-story frame house on the southern lot, filed as new building 38 of 1899, mixing Queen Anne massing with Colonial Revival details. It appears to have been a rental for Eadie, who built No. 50 at about the same time.
“William A. Eadie commissioned architect Peter Veitch to provide plans for a dwelling to be erected on the southern lot.”
- 1925
Architect Theodore Koch makes his home at No. 48
The first recorded tenants, in 1900, were the households of commission agent William Stuart and of William Riley, his son-in-law, who clerked for an insurer. In 1915 the real estate agent Clarence Thillibert lived here, and by 1925 the house was the home of the architect Theodore Koch.
“In 1925, No. 48 was the home of Theodore Koch, an architect.”
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