Anton Schock House

82 Westervelt Avenue | New Brighton | built 1891

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

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1895
Florist Anton Schock builds the district's only late Romanesque Revival house
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Florist Anton Schock put up this brick house in 1895. It is faced in buff Roman brick with molded brick ornament set against rock-faced stone trim, and has a rounded corner bay, a steep gable and a broad arched entrance porch. The Landmarks Preservation Commission singles it out as the only example of late Romanesque Revival design in the St. George/New Brighton Historic District.
“In 1895 the florist Anton Schock erected an unusual brick dwelling at 82 Westervelt Avenue that is the district's sole example of late Romanesque Revival design.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
Eliza Patterson buys the house after a harbor-office clerk's tenancy
During the first ten years of the 1900s the house was occupied by William Daley, who clerked at the River and Harbor Inspection office. The Schock family owned it until 1914, when Eliza Patterson bought it. For some time afterward it was home to the Patterson family and their tenants.
“It was purchased in 1914 by Eliza Patterson and remained the home of die Patterson family and their tenants for some time.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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