Neville House (Old Stone Jug)

806 Richmond Terrace | New Brighton | built 1899

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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. 1770

    Captain John Neville builds a sandstone house with a two-story veranda

    Around 1770 Captain John Neville, a retired naval officer about whom little is recorded, built this country house overlooking the Kill Van Kull. It is laid up in rough-cut red sandstone blocks, now whitewashed, and fronted by a long two-story veranda on six square posts. The Landmarks Commission suggests the seafaring builder may have copied the double veranda from mansions he saw in the West Indies.

    “…since the builder was a seafaring captain, he may well have seen and admired its prototype on one of his voyages to the Caribbean…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1860

    The house passes from the Tysen family, home of a county judge and a local historian

    In the early 1800s the house belonged to Jacob Tysen, a county judge, and to his son Raymond M. Tysen, who wrote a short history of Staten Island. The Tysens let it go around 1860, and several owners followed. For a time it ran as a tavern called the Old Stone Jug, which reportedly did well because Sailors' Snug Harbor was close by.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1967

    November 15

    The Landmarks Commission designates the Neville House, the Old Stone Jug

    The Commission named the house a landmark on November 15, 1967, after a September 1966 hearing where two witnesses spoke in favor and none against; the owner also told the Commission she favored it. The report ranks it among the rare big country houses from before the Revolution still standing in the city. The original doorway and window frames survive, while the roof dormers came later.

    “…one of the few remaining large pre-Revolutionary country houses that may still be seen in New York City…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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