Manhattan: Charlton Street - MacDougal Street
Charlton Street, west from, but not including, MacDougal Street. The slightly taller house at the extreme right is No. 1 1/2 Charlton Street. Between Nos. 9 and 11, on the north side, is a little gap, which exactly marks the old boundary line between the West Bayard Farm, on the east, and Trinity Church Farm, on the west. In the middle of Charlton Street, between this point and Varick Street (where a new building is nearing completion), once stood the famous Richmond Hill House, built by Major Abraham Mortier in 1760, used in 1776 as a headquarters by General Washington, occupied in 1789 by Vice-President and Mrs John Adams, and then leased by Aaron Burr. Charlton Street was originally laid out as Hetty Street or Burr Street, and took its present name in 1807. The old mansion ended as a roadhouse, and was demolished in 1849. This picture was taken the year before the digging of the Eighth Avenue (municipal) Subway and the extension of Sixth Avenue south from Minetta Lane to Walker and Church Streets. In the process, Nos. 2 to 10 Charlton Street, on the south side, and 1 to 7 on the north side, will be demolished, leaving No. 9, the building with the round-arched doorway, as the house at the N.W. corner of Sixth Avenue. 1926.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection
