9 Phelps Place

St. George | built 1890

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

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1890
Douglas Smyth's Shingle Style double house at Nos. 9-10 Phelps Place is built for Anson Phelps Stokes
Nos. 9-10 stand in the middle of the western group of eleven houses that Anson Phelps Stokes had R.H. Casy build in 1890 on the corners of his Bay Villa estate. Douglas Smyth designed the group as eight double houses and three freestanding ones, all facing two new cul-de-sacs; this pair is three stories with a basement.
“Designed by architect Douglas Smyth and facing onto two new cul-de-sacs, the dwellings were divided into eight double houses (including Nos. 7-8 and 9-10 Phelps Place)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Widow Ada Stanley mother of mining engineer Robert C. Stanley, lives on at No. 9 Phelps Place
Attorney Somerville P. Tuck was among the first to live at No. 9, and Minnesota-born attorney Samuel Morrison rented it in the early 1900s. Then the house was rented to Ada Stanley, a widow, who lived here with her son Robert, a mining engineer, and an Irish servant. Robert later moved into the other half of the house at No. 10. By 1925 Mrs. Stanley was still at No. 9, now with her sister and a Norwegian maid.
“…by 1925 Mrs. Stanley lived at this address with her sister and a Norwegian maid.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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