* 5 Carmine Street – The complex at 5 Carmine Street was constructed in the 19th century as three separate buildings. Henry K. Campbell built a brick house at 3 (now 303) Sixth Avenue ca. 1829 and John Parr built two frame dwellings at 5 Carmine Street and 1 and 1½ (now 301) Sixth Avenue ca. 1832. Like most of the buildings along Sixth Avenue and Carmine Street, these buildings had been converted to mixed use by the 1850s – starting likely as a bedding store, then a bakery, followed years later by a fish & oyster market. Angelo Ortolano purchased the wood and brick buildings at 5 Carmine Street and 301 Sixth Avenue in 1902. In 1965-66, under the ownership of Vito and Gilbert DeLucia, the complex underwent a renovation that included the replacement of the facade, reconfiguration of the fenestration, replacement of the cornice and alteration of the roof line at 303 Sixth Avenue.
The three Vernacular style brick row houses overlooking an interior courtyard – at the rear of 5 Carmine Street – were constructed for Thomas Turner, a baker, between 1858 when he purchased the property and 1862 when assessments record the presence of a new building on the lot. Reached by a long passageway from Carmine Street, the houses are fairly well hidden from view. By the 1920s it appears that one, if not all three, of the houses were occupied by multiple households, including that of Angelo Ortolano who had purchased the property in 1902. In 1966, architect Ferdinand Innocenti was responsible for converting each of the houses into a single-family triplex for Vito and Gilbert DeLucia. The houses became individually owned properties with their own tax lots beginning in 1993.
