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<\/a><\/p>\nWealthy residents fleeing the crowded and increasingly commercial neighborhoods below Houston Street sought refuge on this short little street, which only runs two blocks from Broadway to the Bowery.<\/p>\n
To accommodate these fashionable residents, Federal-style houses, typically three or four stories of brick, white trim, dormer windows, and sometimes Classical columns around the entrance, went up in tidy rows. <\/p>\n
Most wouldn\u2019t last, of course. Business and industry arrived in the middle of the 19th century, and homeowners who had the means left for newer neighborhoods.<\/p>\n One by one, almost all of the Federal-style homes\u2014which would have been deemed too small for a family home by Gilded Age standards\u2014met the wrecking ball, replaced by commercial buildings.<\/p>\n But the Federal-style house that once stood at 22 Bond Street, just east of Broadway, refuses to completely leave the cityscape. <\/p>\n Its faded, ghostly outline\u2014the peaked roof, the twin chimneys\u2014persist on the side of its former neighbor at 24 Bond Street. <\/p>\n This sweet old house likely looked exactly like the red-brick survivor at 26 Bond Street, which seems to have only been modernized with a fire escape on the facade and air conditioner in one of the dormers.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n