68 Bank Street

West Village | built 1863

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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. 1863

    Builder Jacob C. Bogert completes a Second Empire town house for his own family

    Jacob C. Bogert, a builder, put up this three-and-a-half-story brick house in 1863 for himself. The landmarks commission treated it as a model of the French Second Empire style then favored by the upper middle class, pointing to its dormers, original high stoop, curved eyebrow cornices and the stone basement and framed doorway.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1870

    April 17

    Civil War officer John A. Bogert is mourned at home, dead at 34

    John A. Bogert served in the Union army, then returned in 1866 to live under his parents' roof, entered the marble trade and had a son, Albert, in December 1869. He died four months later at age 34. Men of the 127th Regiment, in uniform, came into the house for his funeral on April 17, 1870, and more family funerals followed in the parlor over the next years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1887

    April 19

    The Bogert house is sold at auction to Charles and Catharine Duttweiler

    After Jacob Bogert's death in 1884 the house passed to his three surviving children, and Susan and Catherine signed their shares over to William the following year. It was auctioned on April 19, 1887 and bought by Charles and Catharine Duttweiler for $16,850. They hired architect E. Haight for alterations, and the Duttweilers kept selected boarders in the house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1896

    July 19

    Writer J. W. Watson, author of the poem 'Beautiful Snow', dies in his rented rooms

    John Whitaker Watson, a magazine writer and former editor of Frank Leslie's Magazine, took rooms here with his adult daughter in 1894. He was best known for 'Beautiful Snow', published in Harper's Weekly in November 1858 and praised by the London Athenaeum. Already ill with heart trouble, he died in the house on July 19, 1896, aged 69.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1920

    Magdalena Duttweiler turns the family house into bachelor apartments

    After her father Charles died in 1916, Magdalena Duttweiler inherited the house and lived there until she married in 1920. That year she converted it to bachelor apartments, meaning units with no kitchens. A 1936 renovation by H. B. Horwood changed the layout again to eight apartments across basement, parlor and upper floors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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