Capt. John Joseph House

64 Jane Street | also 64A Jane Street | West Village | built 1849

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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. 1849

    Mason Stacey Pitcher finishes a row of Greek Revival houses that includes No. 64

    Stacey Pitcher, a mason working from Crosby Street, put up five brick houses on the Jane Street block between Hudson and Greenwich Streets in 1848-49. Nos. 60, 62 and 64 stand three stories high between two taller corner buildings. The Landmarks Preservation Commission singles out the stoop ironwork at Nos. 62 and 64, and notes that the lattice cast-iron porch at No. 64 follows the original design.

    “The five brick Greek Revival residences creating this block front were erected in 1848-49 by Stacey (Stacy) Pitcher, a mason at 117 Crosby Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1857

    May 5

    Captain John Joseph dies suddenly in his Jane Street house, leaving his widow to take in boarders

    Captain John Joseph, who married the widowed Nancy Town in 1836, lived at No. 64 with her and their son John F. He died at home at 58, and by 1863 Nancy's money was apparently running out. She advertised rooms in the New York Herald that year, and in 1869 she tried to lease the whole house while asking to board with the tenants. Finding no taker, she ran the house as a boarding house that took in teachers and others.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1874

    May 16

    General John Bendix's 17-year-old daughter Ida dies, and her funeral is held in the parlor

    General John E. Bendix, a German-educated Civil War officer who organized the Seventh Regiment of Volunteers and was badly wounded at Fredericksburg, retired in 1871. He moved into No. 64 with his wife Mary and daughter Ida. Ida died of heart disease at 17, and her funeral took place in the house's parlor two days later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1908

    June 8

    A sixteen-year-old boarder who vanished from the house is arrested after a botched midtown robbery

    Sixteen-year-old Wesley Beaser left his room at No. 64 on June 6 and told police he had been wandering the streets. Two nights later he and two accomplices attacked Henry A. Smith, an Oregon visitor, on West 49th Street with a blackjack. A private watchman, Henry McGlinn, fired two shots and chased them, and Beaser was the one he caught.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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