7 Phelps Place

New Brighton | built 1890

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1890
Anson Phelps Stokes builds Nos. 7-8 Phelps Place as a half-timbered Shingle Style double house
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In 1890 Anson Phelps Stokes hired builder R.H. Casey to put up eleven frame houses on two new cul-de-sacs cut into the corners of his New Brighton estate, Bay Villa. Architect Douglas Smyth designed them as eight double houses and three freestanding ones. Nos. 7-8, the southernmost of the western group, are shingled, with neo-Tudor half-timbering at the third story and three tall brick chimneys.
“In 1890 Anson Phelps Stokes contracted to have R.H. Casey build eleven frame dwellings on the southwest and southeast corners of his New Brighton estate…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Banker Edmund L. Judson and his family live at No. 7 Phelps Place
Early in the twentieth century No. 7 was rented by Frederick Baldwin, a wholesale dry-goods merchant, who lived here with his wife, two children and household servants. By 1925 banker Edmund L. Judson occupied the house with his wife Marion, an adult son employed in advertising, and two Black women servants, a cook and a waitress. Some time after 1968 the house was split into two apartments.
“In 1925 No. 7 housed banker Edmund L. Judson; his wife, Marion; their son, who worked in advertising; and two black woman servants…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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