William Schickel House

52 East 83rd Street | Upper East Side | built 1917

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

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1882
Architect William Schickel designs and builds his own house
German-born architect William Schickel, who anglicizes his name after emigrating from Wiesbaden in 1875, files plans in 1881 for his own family's home: a $15,000 red-brick, mansard-roofed house on a 24-foot-wide lot at 52 East 83rd Street. Completed in 1882, it houses Schickel, his wife Elise, and their eleven children.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1907
June 14
Architect William Schickel dies in the house he designed
William Schickel dies at his East 83rd Street residence on June 14, 1907, two months after his last public appearance at a Catholic Club art exhibition. His widow, Elise, remains in the house afterward with several of their still-unmarried children.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1919
September
Girl Scouts leader Anne Hyde Choate's family buys the house
The Choate family purchases the former Schickel house for $70,000 in September 1919. Resident Anne Hyde Choate becomes president of the Girl Scouts that same year and, on October 22, 1921, leads 5,000 scouts marching up Fifth Avenue.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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