60 Westervelt Avenue

New Brighton | built 1874

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

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1869
Hotel owner Matthew Connor builds a double house as an investment
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In 1869 Matthew Connor, who also owned the Belmont Hotel at Westervelt Avenue and Richmond Terrace, bought two lots here from the heirs of Orlando Lee and appears to have built this Second Empire double house as an investment. The liquor merchant James Tulley bought it, along with the hotel, in the late 1870s. In the 1890s Edward M. Muller, the sheriff of Richmond County, acquired it as an income property.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
The Delavan family moves in, including an amateur historian of early Staten Island
From the 1870s No. 60 housed the family of the lawyer Edward C. Delavan: his wife Margaret, their son Tompkins, a bond broker, and their son Edward, also a lawyer. The younger Edward was an amateur historian who gathered a collection of early land papers and wrote at length about Staten Island's early development, including the history of New Brighton. The family lived here through 1915.
“The younger Edward Delavan was an amateur historian who assembled an impressive collection of early land papers and wrote extensively about the early development of Staten Island…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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