Below is a small representation of the hundreds of investigations we’ve performed into our clients’ New York City properties. For each, we’ve produced a House History Book or House History Report. Contact us today to discover the history of YOUR house.
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* No. 463 Union Street – Constructed around 1862, this property is an approximately 160-year-old 2-story & basement brick rowhouse situated in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, New York. It was one of five 2-story rowhouses constructed by builder William F. Bedell. No. 463’s original street address was No. 426. This was so until about 1870. The property was built 430’ from the corner of Hoyt Street with a frontage of 16’ 8”and a depth of 125’. Due to its proximity to the Gowanus Creek/Canal, the property was primarily a rental house in the first few years of its existence, those renting it having middle-class professions—engineering, dry goods, clerks, &c. Afterwards, in 1869, the property was sold to a watch case manufacturer who, eventually, after living in the house for approximately a decade, started his own watch case manufactory. He, subsequently, moved away, and began renting the property to residents of the middle-class. After another decade of possession, the property was conveyed to a working class family, the head of which worked as a driver and then as a painter. A couple of British newlyweds owned it for a very brief period before, upon their emigration to Canada, quickly conveyed it. That year, 1911, saw the house’s first owners of Italian descent, speculators who owned other properties who purchased the house. Afterwards, owners of Italian descent would own the property and—for the most part—occupy it, for nearly the next 100 years, making it, in its most recent period, a mixture rental/owner-occupied property.
* No. 463 Union Street – Constructed around 1862, this property is an approximately 160-year-old 2-story & basement brick rowhouse situated in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, New York. It was one of five 2-story rowhouses constructed by builder William F. Bedell. No. 463’s original street address was No. 426. This was so until about 1870. The property was built 430’ from the corner of Hoyt Street with a frontage of 16’ 8”and a depth of 125’. Due to its proximity to the Gowanus Creek/Canal, the property was primarily a rental house in the first few years of its existence, those renting it having middle-class professions—engineering, dry goods, clerks, &c. Afterwards, in 1869, the property was sold to a watch case manufacturer who, eventually, after living in the house for approximately a decade, started his own watch case manufactory. He, subsequently, moved away, and began renting the property to residents of the middle-class. After another decade of possession, the property was conveyed to a working class family, the head of which worked as a driver and then as a painter. A couple of British newlyweds owned it for a very brief period before, upon their emigration to Canada, quickly conveyed it. That year, 1911, saw the house’s first owners of Italian descent, speculators who owned other properties who purchased the house. Afterwards, owners of Italian descent would own the property and—for the most part—occupy it, for nearly the next 100 years, making it, in its most recent period, a mixture rental/owner-occupied property.
