Amelia Judah House

65 East 2nd Street | East Village | built 1834

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.

1834
Amelia Judah builds a Greek Revival row house
Around 1834 Amelia Judah has a 25-foot-wide brick house built at 65 East 2nd Street, then called 65 Second Street. It is in the then-new Greek Revival style, with an English basement and a full third floor instead of the dormered roof of Federal houses. Newspapers report the death of an 88-year-old spinster named Amelia Judah on April 22, 1849, probably the same woman.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1857
James Hull, sexton of Brick Presbyterian Church, buys the house
James S. Hull buys 65 East 2nd Street in 1857, after the Brick Presbyterian Church, where he is sexton, sells its old property and moves uptown. He also becomes keeper and undertaker of the New York City Marble Cemetery across the street. By 1859 his sister Phebe and her husband John R. Spies live with him.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1877
The house is probably remodeled from Greek Revival to Italianate
Hull sells the house to Nathaniel H. Hodgson for $15,000 in April 1877, and the house was likely given its Italianate cornice and entrance around then. Claus and Helene Molzen buy it in 1889 and run it as a rooming house, and they probably add the wrought-iron fire escapes.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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