8 Phelps Place

St. George | 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
No. 8 Phelps Place goes up on the Stokes estate and is rented for years by the Bowland family
No. 8 is the northern half of the double house Anson Phelps Stokes had built in 1890 to designs by Douglas Smyth on his Bay Villa estate. Through much of the 1890s and early 1900s it was rented by Edward Bowland, a worsted-goods salesman born in Massachusetts, together with his three sons, his aunt and a Norwegian servant. Canadian-born insurance agent George H. Parker and his family followed.
“For many years during the 1890s and early 1900s, No. 8 was rented by Edward Bowland, a Massachusetts-born salesman of worsted goods…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Patent and trademark lawyer Henry B. Brownell lives at No. 8 Phelps Place
In 1925 the house was home to Henry B. Brownell, a New Jersey-born attorney who had studied at Yale and Georgetown and whose practice dealt with patents and trademarks. He lived here with his wife Martha, their three children and an Irish maid. The roof was re-covered in asphalt shingles in 1944, and No. 8 is still a single-family house.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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