Timothy Phelan House

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4-story Greek-revival residential building completed in the early 1840s as a 3-story townhouse. Among the first occupants were Timothy Phelan and his family, and they also took in a number of boarders throughout the 1840s and '50s. The Phelan children remained in their parents' home after their deaths in 1861. By 1883 they could no longer make the mortgage payments, but their church diocese came to their aid, and also apparently enlarged the house upward, adding a 4th floor with an Italianate style, bracketed cornice, allowing for more boarders.

The church still held the mortgage on the house--which it described in church documents as the McManus-Phelan House--at least through 1918. When the house was offered for sale in 1921, it had noticeably declined. An advertisement described it as a "4 story, 28 room tenement." It was purchased by Teresa Parsons, whose renovations completed in 1929 resulted in a caretaker's apartment in the basement and furnished rooms on the upper floors. Significant change to the building came in 1970, when a renovation resulted in a "textile works factory" in the basement, an office on the 1st floor, more factory space on the 2nd, and a duplex apartment on the 3rd and 4rth. It was most likely at this time that the stoop was removed and the entrance lowered to nearly sidewalk level. Today it has three rental apartments.

The facade is clad in red brick above a raised stone basement. A 3-step brick stoop on the left fronts paneled red wooden double-doors below a low transom, which is surmounted by a bas-relief neo-Classical plaque of white stone, featuring two cherubs connected by a garland and ribbon. There are two low basement windows to the right, behind a low brick wall. The windows above the basement have stone sills and lintels, and the building is topped by a bracketed black metal roof cornice. The exposed eastern sidewall is plain concrete with no windows.

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