143 East 19th Street (New York City, New York)

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3-story (plus raised basement) Greek-revival townhouse completed in 1843. It is clad in red brick above a brownstone basement. A brownstone stoop on the right leads to the entrance, with a black paneled wooden door, leaded-glass sidelights, and a fanlight. To the left are two tall parlor-floor windows with foliate iron grilles over their bases, and basement windows below. The upper floors have three bays of single-windows, shorter at each floor, with brownstone sills and molded lintels. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with console brackets and swagged panels.

The house was home to the family of Samuel R. Mabbatt, a coal dealer, in 1855. They were replaced by Edward T. and Anne E. Reilly in the mid-1860s. In 1883 the house was purchased by policeman Anthony J. Allaire, and then sold in 1892 to Thomas D. Reilly (no relation to the earlier owner). After he died, the estate sold the house in 1905 to Julia Noethen; it was sold again in 1907, and was purchased in February 1920 by Dr. Frederick J. Fox and his wife Gertrude E. Fox. In 1927 James E. Fuller bought the house and converted it to accommodate a social club. That club gave way to the Old Canteen Club within a few years, organized by and for disabled veterans of World War I. The upper floors were rented as unofficial apartments through the decades. In 1997 owner Lynn Wagenknecht and her architect, Thomas Tsue, began a two-year restoration that included removing the club entrance and returning the house to a single-family dwelling.