George C. F. Haas House

64 East 7th Street | East Village | built 1840

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1839

    A Greek Revival row house rises with a cast-iron balcony

    Construction of 64 East 7th Street begins in 1839 and finishes the next year. The wide red-brick house stands on a rusticated brownstone basement, with a cast-iron balcony running across the parlor floor. Carved groups of nuts and berries on the entrance entablature hint at the owner's wealth.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1882

    Rev. George C. F. Haas moves in after becoming pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church

    The Rev. George C. F. Haas, who had been assistant pastor, becomes pastor of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church and moves into 64 East 7th Street in 1882. His sister Emma and his mother-in-law Elizabeth Hansen join the household, and his children George and Gertrude are born in 1888 and 1892.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1904

    June 15

    The General Slocum disaster kills members of the pastor's family

    On June 15, 1904, St. Mark's Church charters the steamboat General Slocum for a picnic outing, and most of the Haas household goes aboard. The ship burns, and only 321 of about 1,300 people on board survive, in what was New York's greatest loss of life until September 11, 2001. Haas and his sister Emma survive, but his wife Anna, daughter Gertrude, and mother-in-law are lost; his son George, who stayed home, is spared.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1919

    A Russian-language communist weekly is printed in the basement

    By 1919 Alexander Brailovsky runs a print shop behind a basement stationery store at 64 East 7th Street, where he publishes the Russian-language weekly Russky Golos, closely aligned with the Communist Party. The paper stays in the house until at least 1939. Morris Spielberg had bought the building in 1913 and had architects Gross & Kleinberger renovate it in 1916.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2009

    The house is returned to single-family use

    A renovation from 2009 to 2011, designed by William Peterson for owner Lisa J. Fox, turns 64 East 7th Street back into a single-family house. The store added at basement level before the 1940s is removed.

    Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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