62 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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1870
Manhattan merchant Charles Soutter leases the south half of Matthew Connor's double house
Matthew Connor built the double house at Nos. 60-62 as an investment around 1869-74, and in the 1870s No. 62 was occupied by Charles Soutter, a New York City merchant. In the early 1890s James S. Whitman, a clerk, and Miss May Whitman lived here, and during the 1910s and 1920s it was the home of the Macken family.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1874
Connor's double house goes up with the richest trim of the street's early mansard-roofed houses
The district's designation report names Nos. 60-62 the most elaborately decorated of the Second Empire houses built on Westervelt Avenue between 1869 and 1874. Its windows have segmental and round arches set in bracketed surrounds, and its mansard roof keeps fish-scale shingles. The porch, placed for harbor views, still runs the full width of the front with bracketed eaves and turned balusters.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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