In May 2024 I walked the length of Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, named for late 1800s landowner Nathaniel Platt Bailey.
I never photograph 3072 Bailey Avenue at West 231st on my own. The camera is attracted to it and manages to snap it every time I pass by. It is an 1897 Queen Anne-style house that has retained a great deal of its 1897 detail (or has had much of it restored). Other than that, the guidebooks ignore it, and architectural details and residents’ histories are largely hard to find much to my dismay.
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I was curious to see what I looked like in the past, and the 1940s and 1980s NYC tax photos archives reveals that it looked substantially the same through much of its history. The paint jobs have differed, but the details have either been restored as is or have been lovingly maintained by its various owners. As a rule, ornamentation gradually get stripped away over the decades, but not here.
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8/22/24