83 St Marks Place
St. George | built 1874
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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.
- 1894
Prentice sells his remodeled rental house to Charles W. Galleupe
Built by attorney Augustus Prentice between 1863 and 1874 as the twin of No. 75, this L-shaped clapboard house appears on the 1874 Beers Atlas as a rental occupied by the Gregory family. Prentice apparently extended it westward and recast it in the Colonial Revival style early in 1894, then sold it that October to Massachusetts businessman Charles W. Galleupe, subject to a lease to Frederick Hunt.
“…he sold the house to Massachusetts businessman Charles W. Galleupe in October 1894, subject to a lease to Frederick Hunt.”
- 1901
Mining engineer Frederick Hunt lives here, followed by a banker and lawyers
Frederick Hunt, a mining engineer and an active member of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, stayed in the house until at least 1901. Renters after him included John P. Gardner, a banker, around 1910, attorney Herbert J. Bickford in 1915, and, around 1925, George Fatton, a marine, and accountant John Kirby.
- 1934
A thwarted plan for stores ends with the house remodeled into apartments
During the late 1920s the property's controlling owner, the Hanes Realty Corporation, filed plans to put stores on the Carroll Place end but could not get a zoning variance. Instead, from 1934 to 1936 the house was heavily remodeled to legalize its earlier division into apartments. Asbestos shingles covered the clapboards in 1938, and further changes followed in 1961, 1972 and the 1980s.
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