Dalberg House

84 Westervelt Avenue | New Brighton | built 1898

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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. 1869

    Edward Decker buys the land and appears to run a nursery on it

    Before the present house, Edward Decker bought this parcel in 1869 and seems to have run a nursery on it; the commission's report suggests he was probably the Decker who worked as gardener on the J.Q. Jones estate in the 1840s. Susan Decker, who apparently became a laundress after Edward's death, lived on the property in 1875. In 1894 she sold the land to Michael Isaacs, who sold this lot to the Dalbergs that same year.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1894

    Paint merchant Oscar Dalberg and his wife Charlotte build a Queen Anne house

    Charlotte and Oscar Dalberg bought this sloping 35-foot lot in 1894 and appear to have built the three-story frame house, with a turret rising over its narrow central bay, for themselves soon after. Oscar was a paint merchant with a store on Jersey Street; the commission's report lists Charlotte as an intelligence officer, and the household probably included their son John, a painter and decorator, along with a lodger who worked as a railroad ticket agent. The house appears on the detailed map of 1898.

    “The house was occupied by Oscar Dalberg, a paint merchant who had a store on Jersey Street; his wife, Charlotte Dalberg, who was an intelligence officer…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1910

    A nurse and an assessor's clerk move in after the Dalbergs leave

    By 1910 the Dalbergs had moved away. Among the people then living in the house were Hanna Jacobson, a professional nurse, and Fred W. Pfuff, who clerked in the assessor's office. In the 1920s steamship clerk Hans Ostermann lived here with his family and a roomer.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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