56 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1887

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

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1886
The easternmost of Stokes's western cottages is built with a wraparound porch
This shingled house, built in 1886-87 for Anson Phelps Stokes, closes the western trio of the six rental cottages he put up along St. Marks Place. Unlike its neighbors, it still has its full-width porch wrapping onto the east side, with a wood railing of wavy balusters. A first-floor window in the east wing keeps its historic sash with curved muntins.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
English-born electrical engineer Aldred K. Warren leases the house
Merchant Norman Walker rented the house in the late 1880s and early 1890s. In 1900 it was leased to Aldred K. Warren, an electrical engineer born in England, who lived here with his wife Louise, two sons and two Irish servants. By 1925 the extended Grove family and their Irish maid were the occupants.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
Owner Joseph J. Lucey builds a garage into the front-yard slope
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In 1927-28 Joseph J. Lucey, who owned the house and lived in it, added a garage in the lot's northeast corner. Built with concrete walls into the slope of the front yard, it sits behind the rubble retaining wall that lines the property, now topped by a wrought-iron fence and gate.
“Owner-occupant Joseph J. Lucey had a garage erected at the northeast corner of the lot in 1927-28…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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