The house at 1 Monroe Place was built in the early 1850s for Samuel Bell, a New York merchant, as a rental property. It was built later and separately from the adjacent houses, in the same late Greek Revival style.
Originally, 1 Monroe Place was three stories tall. It was a simpler, smaller house than today, with no Mansard roof, no rear extension, and no bay windows looking over Clark Street.
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