The Times on The Home for Old Ladies
This weekend The New York Times took a look at Clinton Hill’s ‘Graham Home for Old Ladies,’ in connection with a condo unit that’s currently up for sale. The four-and-a-half story home was built in 1851 and financed by a lawyer who envisioned a home for “indigent gentlewomen” who did not want to live in…
This weekend The New York Times took a look at Clinton Hill’s ‘Graham Home for Old Ladies,’ in connection with a condo unit that’s currently up for sale. The four-and-a-half story home was built in 1851 and financed by a lawyer who envisioned a home for “indigent gentlewomen” who did not want to live in a public asylum. It provided shelter for women for more than a century after it was built. In the 1980s the building was renamed Bull Shippers Plaza Motor Inn, where it attracted not old ladies, but “ladies of the hour.” The city bought the building, turned it into SROs, and it was abandoned by the 1990s. It was renovated in 2000 and converted into 25 condos, which sold out when they went to market in ’02. You can check out the Corcoran listing, which is going for $849,000.
Condo For Sale in Historic ‘Home for Old Ladies’ [NY Times]
Photo by Devyn Caldwell
wow…great history!
In all seriousness when I was a student at Pratt in the 80’s I used to walk my dog on Waverly Ave, which is behind this building, and frequently had crack vials crunching under my feet. The good old days! THAT SAID, I also hope everybody gets out to vote tomorrow if for no other reason than to restore mayoral term limits (’cause I can’t get used to the *new* new york either…)
Write that story, Brenda- I’ll buy the hardcover! 🙂
New New York sucks
*rob*
brilliant, Brenda.
i was underwhelmed by the pictures of teh interior at first– didn’t match the beautiful exterior. but the place is spacious, and that closet is huge, and it comes with parking. very comfortable living. you could stay there for as long as you want, raise a family.
A great plot for a novel or indie movie: one indigent old lady of Edith Wharton’s New York, one lady of the night of the crack-&-Flashdance era, and one current condo lady, all linked by living in the same room in this beautiful, haunted-looking building…