59 Westervelt Avenue

New Brighton | built 1910

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

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1910
Thomas C. Perkins designs the house for George Sanford Parsons as a twin of No. 57
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George Sanford Parsons, son-in-law of the hat manufacturer Henry Vanderhoef, hired Thomas C. Perkins, the Staten Island architect of the Vanderhoef house next door, to design this Queen Anne and Shingle Style house in 1910. It mirrors No. 57, with a full-width porch on paired Doric columns and a full-height angled bay under a polygonal roof. During World War I Parsons served as appeal agent at the local draft board.
“During World War I, Parsons was the appeal agent at the local draft board. He hired Staten Island architect Thomas C. Perkins…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Henrietta Vanderhoef takes in boarders, among them two mining engineers
Parsons' wife, Alice, died in 1920. By 1925 the house was occupied by Henrietta Vanderhoef, the unmarried daughter of Henry Vanderhoef, who lived next door at No. 65. She shared it with several boarders, including an executive and two mining engineers.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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