Gideon Tucker House
- Year
- 1809
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Gideon Tucker House, also known as 2 White Street, was built in 1808-09 by Gideon Tucker, a city Alderman for the Fifth Ward who also served as School Commissioner and Commissioner of Estimates and Assessments. Tucker oversaw its construction and lived there once it was finished, and his Tucker & Ludlum plaster factory sat on another part of the same property. It survives as a rare marker of the era when this stretch of the Lower West Side was filling in with houses.
the building
Gambrel roof and dormers. The brick-and-wood house is a rare survivor from its period that still has its original gambrel roof and dormer windows, along with a cornice noted for its handsome detailing and fine moldings.
Shop at street level. The ground floor was built out as a shop, a use that continues at the address today.
the style
Though completed in 1809, the house's Federal styling looks back to eighteenth-century design. It would originally have read as the end house of a small row of similar two-story-over-basement dwellings, a common arrangement for the period.
More on Federalsignificance
The house is a New York City Landmark, one of the few remaining physical traces of the neighborhood's early residential development.
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- St. John's Chapel
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