Chrystie Street Settlement House

75 Horatio Street | also 77 Horatio Street | West Village | built 1910

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  1. 1836

    A Greek Revival row credited to builder William Halsey includes two houses for Henry Wyckoff

    After Francis B. Cutting began selling off this land in 1835, a row of five Greek Revival houses went up at Nos. 69-77, and the landmark report credits the builder William R. Halsey with them. Nos. 75 and 77 were built for Henry J. Wyckoff, a former Alderman of the First Ward long active in city administration. Both were two stories with an attic over a basement.

    “Nos. 75 and 77 were erected for a distinguished New Yorker, Henry J. Wyckoff, at one time Alderman of the First Ward…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1891

    February 21

    A resident of 77 Horatio Street is judged the best-built police applicant of 300

    Daniel M. Hogan, a 30-year-old Pennsylvania Railroad pier foreman, lived at 77 Horatio Street when he took the police physical on February 21, 1891. The examiners could find no flaw and called him the most perfectly developed of the 300 applicants. The Sun reported that he lifted 660 pounds on a lifting machine and had biceps measuring 15.5 inches.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1912

    May

    The Chrystie Street House for homeless boys moves into 75-77 Horatio Street

    The Chrystie Street House, a settlement for homeless boys and young men, opened a northern annex in these houses in 1909 under Wallace Gillpatrick. In May 1912 the downtown house closed and everything moved here, after the two buildings were joined inside at a reported cost of $8,000. The plans included a gymnasium, reading and dining rooms, and space for twenty boys. Gillpatrick had said in 1908 that about three quarters of the young men who came to the settlement had been through the workhouse on vagrancy charges.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1927

    May 4

    The Winfield Day Nursery opens in the combined houses

    After the settlement house left in the late 1920s, 75-77 Horatio Street was renovated for the Winfield Day Nursery, formerly the Bloomingdale Day Nursery. It opened on May 4, 1927 with a nursery and kindergarten on the first two floors and a caretaker's apartment above. By 1938 it cared for babies as young as two weeks, served warm midday dinners and hosted Boy Scout and Girl Scout meetings.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1957

    September

    The Masters Children's Center takes over the nursery building

    The Winfield Day Nursery stayed until 1957, when the buildings became the Masters Children's Center. It opened that September and, according to the New York Times, ran a nursery school with a therapeutic program for disturbed children. The center remained for decades; in 1986 a renovation turned the combined houses into apartments.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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