50 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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- 1899
William Eadie builds on a lot that stood empty for three decades
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In 1869 Mary H. Eadie, wife of John Eadie, bought two lots from Orlando Lee's heirs, the sites of today's Nos. 50 and 52. The northern one stayed empty until about 1899, when her grandson William Eadie built No. 48 next door and this house as well. Because the two are so alike, the commission attributes No. 50 to No. 48's architect, Peter Veitch.
“The north lot (No. 50) was left vacant until around the time that William Eadie, the grandson of Mary and John Eadie, acquired the adjacent lots…”
- 1900
Widowed Mary Eadie and her daughter live beside the family's older house
The house became home to clerks William A. Eadie and George Bertram Eadie and to John H. Eadie, an inspector. In 1900 it was occupied by the widowed Mary Eadie, who also owned No. 52 next door, and her daughter. By 1925 real estate agent Thomas Barry lived here with two boarders, a machinist and a private accountant.
- 1994
The entrance porch is rebuilt with a flat roof and turned balustrade
The projecting entrance porch was remodeled in 1994, replacing one that seems to have dated from the 1920s; its flat roof is edged with a turned balustrade and reached from a glazed second-story door. The clapboard house keeps its patterned-shingle gable over three windows, and in the 1920s or 1930s it was joined to No. 52 near the rear at the second and third floors.
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