92 Harrison Street House
92 Harrison Street | Stapleton | built 1899
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1853
Governor Tompkins's son-in-law Richard G. Smith builds a Greek Revival house to rent out
Richard G. Smith, son-in-law of Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, had bought this land in 1835 and laid out Harrison Street. Around 1853-54 he built this house on a 100-by-120-foot corner lot, apparently as an investment. Publisher John Whitney and British-born broker Edwin W. Parker rented it in turn before Smith sold it in 1863 to Michael Conklin, a lumber and coal dealer.
“92 Harrison Street was constructed c. 1853-54 for Richard G. Smith on a 100 by 120 foot parcel…”
- 1870
Retired sea captain Richard T. Hartshorne, publisher of a shipping register, buys the house
In 1870 the house went to Richard T. Hartshorne, a former sea captain who had turned to publishing and was then living in Brooklyn. From 1859 to 1879 he issued American Lloyd's Registry of American and Foreign Shipping. Hartshorne and his family stayed until roughly 1876, when directories show them back in Brooklyn; they later moved to New Jersey.
- 1876
Former sailor Henry Haltermann moves in and throws summer balls with a hired orchestra
Around 1876 the house passed to Henry Haltermann, a German-born former merchant sailor who by then had a job as an oil inspector in Manhattan. The Haltermanns hosted summer balls here, hiring an orchestra that played from a platform built for the purpose. Members of the family owned the house until 1970.
“…the scene of splendid summer balls, for which Haltermann hired an orchestra that played from a special platform…”
- 2016
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the house 36 years after its first hearing
The commission first heard the case for 92 Harrison Street in September 1980, when the owner's representatives and local groups such as the Mud Lane Society for the Preservation of Stapleton spoke in favor. The item then sat unresolved until a 2015 Backlog Initiative hearing for Staten Island. The commission designated it in 2016, calling it an exceptionally fine and remarkably intact vernacular Greek Revival house.
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