The Charles S. Holt House

58 Downing Street | West Village | built 1899

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1842
October
A tallow chandler is tried for a public nuisance after boiling rotten meat in his house
Charles S. Holt, who lived at 58 Downing Street in the early 1840s, tried to make soap and tallow on the premises, most likely in a small rear building. In October 1842 he was tried for a public nuisance for boiling rotten meat for grease, and neighbors said the stench drove them from their homes. The judges suspended his sentence, expecting him to stop, and his business apparently went on to succeed.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1897
June 7
A fireman who lives here is thrown from his engine on the way to a fire
William Altie, a fireman with Engine Company No. 13, rented rooms at 58 Downing Street with his family. On the night of June 7, 1897, the galloping horses pulling his engine threw him to the ground at Canal and Wooster Streets. A surgeon from an ambulance treated his face and leg injuries on the spot before he was taken home.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2015
April
Food Network chef Michael Symon buys the house for $5.14 million
Political scientist Ian Bremmer listed 58 Downing Street in August 2013, advertising a landscaped garden, an English basement and wood-beamed ceilings. In April 2015 it was bought by chef Michael Symon, co-host of the Food Network show 'The Chew', for $5.14 million. He relisted it about a year and a half later. The house, raised to a full top story in 1878, survives largely intact.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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