St. Mark's Historic District

This residential district in Manhattan lies between Second and Third Avenues and East 9th and East 11th Streets, on part of Peter Stuyvesant's old Bouwerie farm. Its street pattern grew from the wills of successive Stuyvesant generations. Three buildings date from the lifetime of Petrus Stuyvesant: St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery (1795-1799), No. 44 Stuyvesant Street (1795) and No. 21 Stuyvesant Street (1803-1804), which was the birthplace of Hamilton Fish. The church combines a late Georgian body, a Greek Revival steeple added in 1828 and an Italianate cast iron porch of 1858. Most of the remaining area was developed after the late 1850s. It includes three matching Italianate houses at 106-110 East 10th Street and the Triangle, a group of brick buildings designed to read as one grand Italianate structure. Later waves of immigrants turned many houses into rooming houses, but the district keeps much of its original character.