89 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1925

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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. 1874

    Augustus Prentice's mansard-roofed rental house appears on the Beers Atlas

    Attorney Augustus Prentice bought this stretch of St. Marks Place in 1863, and by 1874 a Second Empire frame house with a mansard roof stood here, shown on the Beers Atlas as a rental occupied by "J. Bonner." That was probably broker George Bonner, who with Edward Bonner was active in Staten Island schooling and sports.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1880

    The Outerbridge family, including tennis pioneer Mary Outerbridge, lives here

    In the 1880s the house was home to customs official Alexander E. Outerbridge and many of his ten children. His son Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge was the Port of New York Authority's first chairman, from 1921 to 1924, and the Outerbridge Crossing is named for him. His daughter Mary E. Outerbridge (1852-1886) introduced lawn tennis to the United States in 1874 at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club.

    “Mary E. Outerbridge (1852-1886), is important to sports history for her introduction of lawn tennis to the United States…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1926

    Engineer William F. Hunt puts up a mail-order Sears garage on Carroll Place

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    Construction engineer William F. Hunt and his wife Julia lived here in the 1910s and 1920s. They added a small east wing in 1921 and, between 1926 and 1929, put up a three-car mail-order Sears garage on the lot's Carroll Place frontage, with rusticated concrete-block walls and a hipped roof. The house is now three apartments.

    “They built a small addition on the east side of the house in 1921 and erected a mail­order garage from Sears…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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