188 East 25th Street, Rose Hill District
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| 25th and 5th Street, 1865 |
The Nolan’s building had fourteen different families; they were all immigrants from England, Hanover, Ireland, Prussia, Scotland. Many families had young children and each family shared a common trend - children born in New York with parents born outside the United States. This building is no longer standing; I believe the location was near where the Carlton Arms Hotel stands.
Rose Hill District
Rose Hill was originally a farm owned by James DeLancey and it was sold to Honorable John Watts, a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1747. The farm was 130 acres between East 30th to East 21st Street from what is now Irving Place to the East River. John Watts later married Ann DeLancey and they raised their family here. At the start of the Revolutionary War, as Loyalists they returned to England and left the estate to their son, John, who inherited it in 1789. Over time, the Rose Hill farmland gave way to urban development as Manhattan expanded northward.
241 West 13th Street, Meat Packing District
Anne and John had an account at the New York Emigrant Savings Bank that gives us their 1871 home location - 3 Goerck Street (today 241 W 13th Street.) This location was in the heart of New York's Meat Packing District. The current structure at this address was built in 1904 (BIN 1011127). |
| Meat Packing District 1870s |
The Meat Packing District
The Meat Packing District went through a significant transition after the American Civil War; in the 1870s, the tenor of the neighborhood changed. Single-family residences was replaced with the building of multiple-family dwellings, and the continued internal industrialization increased. In addition an elevated railroad line had been constructed through the neighborhood along Ninth Avenue and Greenwich Street, completed in 1869.
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