36 Commerce Street
This three-story brick house was built in 1841 for Alexander McLachlan, the owner of a brewery at No. 38 on land originally part of the Hendricks-Gomez property. In the 1920’s, when the brewery became the Cherry Lane Theater, this house was part of an artist and writer community that included the houses on the south side of Commerce St. to the theater and the west side of Bedford St. through No. 73. These houses shared a rear courtyard while heat and hot water were piped from a furnace located at No. 34. Today, this house has its own small garden surrounded by the theater’s backstage buildings. The stoop, removed by McLachlan after the house’s construction, was replaced in 1996. The house retains its handsome wood roof cornice, typical of the houses of the Greek Revival period.
Marker is on Commerce Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
