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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1865/00/00 A brownstone townhouse is built on E 48th Street.
1919/00/00 William Lawrence Bottomley Architect William L Bottomley redesigns each townhouse to have the main living areas at back garden. Except for removing the stoop, no two of the town houses are alike.
1919/00/00 Edward Clarence Dean Landscape Architect Edward Dean's Italian inspired garden is decorated with iron turtles on fence post and downspouts ending in duckbill spouts.
1946/00/00 E B White Home E B White moves to 229 E 48th Street in Turtle Bay Gardens, between 2nd and 3rd Aves, Manhattan, New York. Keeping No 245 until 1957, the Whites will also live at 239 and at 245 E 48th Street.
1946/00/00 Katharine Sergeant Angell White Home Elwyn Brooks White, and his wife, Katharine, move to 229 E 48th Street in Turtle Bay Gardens.
1949/00/00 E B White Life EB White writes about a willow tree he can see out his back windows at 229 E 48th Street: "Here Is New York." - "It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire .... This must be saved." It died in 2009.

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Particulars for Sergeant White Townhouse:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Sight Category Historic District
Historic Use Single dwelling




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