97 St Marks Place

St. George | built 1859

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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. 1867

    William S. Pendleton sells his Italianate frame house to his son William H. Pendleton

    Judging by its style, this three-story Italianate frame house went up in the 1850s at the west end of a tract of more than 400 feet that William S. Pendleton (1795-1879) had bought from attorney George Griffin in 1849. In 1867 he sold the house to his son, William H. Pendleton, together with a plot stretching 75 feet on Carroll Place. Who first lived here is uncertain; by 1874 the son was living in another house in his father's New Brighton development.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1889

    Elizabeth Bigley buys the house as the Pendleton land is split into lots

    After John M. Pendleton split the family land into building lots, this 33-by-100-foot lot went to Elizabeth M.J. Bigley in 1889; her deed allowed her to lay a sewer pipe. In the 1890s the house gained a porch, stairhall, kitchen, dining room and a steeply pitched roof, while keeping its 1850s cornice and carved brackets. Elizabeth and her husband Charles, a bookkeeper, stayed about a year, then sold to Margaret Blake.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1908

    Children's author Etta Baker and her husband William buy the house

    Margaret Blake held the property until 1908, when it was bought by Etta Baker, who wrote several books for children, and William Baker, her husband, a sales agent for a building contractor. Between 1926 and 1937 the couple added the rear part of today's lot and built a garage on Carroll Place, since torn down. Baker family ownership lasted until the early 1960s, and in 1994 the house was a single-family home.

    “…purchased by Etta Baker, an author of several children's books, and her husband, William, a sales agent for a building contractor…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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