After Judge Jones' departure from Bond street, his old residence became the "fashionable boarding house" of Mrs. Lois Street, who had for some years conducted a similar establishment at 36 Broadway. She had ample experience in the business, for as early as 1809 she and her husband kept a boarding house at 67 Pearl street.

 Mrs. Street maintained her house in Bond street till 1844, and then went to 47 Lafayette place, the northernmost house in "Colonnade Row," which was for many years the home of "The Churchman." Among Mrs. Street's boarders was Gabriel Wisner, a wealthy Front street merchant, who was a director of the City Bank for a long period. He was with her when she "kept" at 36 Broadway.

Another was Martin Mantin, consul of Sicily and the Papal States. After Mrs. Street's departure No. 2 became the residence of John W. Schulten, a Broad street commission merchant.

No. 3 Bond Street

No. 3, next door to Dr. Francis' house, was for more than thirty years the home of one of New York's most famous clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church for sixty-three years. Dr. Spring's first sermon as pastor of the church was preached on Sunday June 3rd, 1810, in the old Brick Meeting House at Nassau and Beekman streets, which stood on the site, 41 Park Row, of the building formerly occupied by the New York Times. At a service held in 1850 to celebrate his fortieth year as pastor it was stated that during that period Dr. Spring had preached 6,000 sermons, had received 2092 persons into membership in the church, had baptized 1361 persons, and had married 875 couples. Before he went to Bond street, in 1826, he had lived at 33 Beekman street. In 1857 the present Brick Church, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh street, was built, and shortly afterward Dr. Spring moved to 6 East Thirty-seventh street, where he died August 18, 1873. Dr. Spring was for many years a trustee of Columbia College and of New York University.

No. 4 Bond Street

At No. 4 lived Nathaniel Weed, an old Pearl street dry goods merchant, who came to Bond street in 1829 from 86 Warren street. He and his brother Harvey constituted the firm of N. & H. Weed. Their tore was at 191 Pearl street. Both were born in Connecticut, the state that furnished old New York with so many boys that later were numbered among her eminent merchants. Nathaniel Weed was for many years president of the North River Bank, and it was during his incumbency that the Bank erected the dignified and commodious old building of brown stone, still standing though now sadly dilapidated, on the northeast corner of Greenwich and Dey streets.

He was also a director of the American Exchange Bank, organized in 1838, and was vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. His brother Harvey was a director of the Merchants' Bank and of the Equitable Insurance Company. In 1845 Nathaniel Weed left Bond street and took the easterly half of the large double house of granite that can yet be seen at Nos. 3 and 5 Great Jones street. When the Weeds retired from business, about 1855, Nathaniel went to his native town of Danbury, Connecticut, and Harvey went to Newburgh, N.Y. No. 4 Bond street next became the residence of Daniel Oakey, importer, of 33 Beaver street, corner of Broad street, who moved to No. 4 from 103 Chambers street in 1845, and about 1849 the Bond street house was taken by Alexander L. Holgate, merchant, whose place of business was at 74 Pine street.

No. 5 Bond Street

No. 5, next door to Dr. Spring's house, had distinguished occupants. The first was Albert Gallatin, a member of Congress, Secretary of the Treasury for twelve years under Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and minister to France for eight years under Madison and Monroe. Returning to America in 1823 he declined a seat in Monroe's cabinet and in 1824 he declined to be a candidate for vice-presidency, to which he was nominated by the Democratic Party. John Quincy Adams appointed him Minister to Great Britain. Returning to America in 1827 he took up his residence in New York, living then at 113 Bleecker street. In 1828, at the suggestion of the first John Jacob Astor, he was made president of the new National Bank. In 1829 he moved from Bleecker street to No. 5 Bond street. In 1843 he was elected president of the New York Historical Society, which office he held until his death in 1849 at the age of eighty-eight.

In 1833, No. 5 became the residence of one of America's most distinguished soldiers, Winfield Scott, then a major-general and second in command of the army. He became commander-in-chief upon the death of Major-General Alexander Macomb in 1841. When General Scott left New York in 1835 his house in Bond street was taken by William Kent, judge of the Circuit Court and one of the leaders of the New York bar. His fame, however, is overshadowed by that of his father, the great Chancellor. Prior to taking the Scott house, Judge Kent had lived two years at No. 39 Bond street. For a number of years he was a trustee of New York University. In 1840 he moved to Fourth avenue, near Fifteenth street, and No. 5 Bond street was then taken by the Pell family (previously at 13 St. mark's place), who remained there for upwards of fifteen years.

No. 6 Bond Street

No. 6 Bond street was the home of one of old New York's "solid and substantial" citizens, Andrew S. Norwood, merchant, of the firm of Norwood and Austin, 146 Pearl street. He came to No. 6 from 622 Broadway in 1829 and in 1840 moved to 165 Twelfth street, now 15 East Twelfth street. A few years later he moved to 199 (now 325) West Fourteenth street. Andrew S. Norwood was one of the jurors at the trial of Samuel G.Ogden in 1806 for complicity in the Miranda filibustering expedition, and in 1807 was one of the founders and incorporators of the Presbyterian Church in Cedar street, now the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, his associates being Ebenezer Stevens, Selah Strong, Elisha Leavenworth, John Aspinwall, Archibald Gracie, Benjamin Strong, Theodore Ely, William W. Woolsey, Joseph Otis, Stephen Whitney, Hezekiah Lord, William Adams, David Hosack, Nathaniel L. Griswold, Robert Weir, John Trumbull and Lynde Catlin.

He was also heavily interested in shipping, being owner of a line of Havre packets. He was a personal friend of Lafayette and was invited to the wedding of the illustrious General's daughter at the Chateau La Grange. When Carlisle Norwood was an enthusiastic member of the old Volunteer Fire Department and joined Engine Company No. 28 when he was eighteen years old. Later he was a member of Engine Company No. 21. In 1836 he organized and was made foreman of Hose Company No. 5, which speedily became recognized as the best disciplined company in the service. Hose Company No. 5 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 6 occupied the ground floor of old Fire-men's Hall, 127 and 129 Mercer street. Among the members of No. 5 were John Watts De Peyster, who became a major-general in the Civil War, and the famous Henry Carroll Marx, better known as "Dandy" Marx. Carlisle Norwood is described as "the very ideal of a fireman; that is, his activity was never surpassed, his perceptions were quick, and his judgment cool, clear, and steady. He believed that the 'post of honor was the post of danger,' and exemplified the truth of the proverb in his own person, sharing in all the exposures and perils incident to the life of a New York fireman. The fact is, his heart was in the business, and it enlisted all his sympathies and awakened all the native energy of his character." He was at one time Fire Warden of the Fifteenth Ward, and repeatedly refused to be a candidate for Engineer of the Department. In the '70's he was Vice-President of the St. Nicholas Society, and President of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company. In 1840, when his father went to live at 15 East Twelfth street, Carlisle Norwood went to the southeast corner of Houston and Wooster streets, then 488 Houston street. In 1850 he was deputy register under Cornelius V. Anderson.

Following the Norwoods, No. 6 Bond street was taken by "the celebrated lawyer, Francis Griffin," who was a son of "Old George Griffin," a ponderous but able lawyer, famous for his "blue side-winged spectacles and his broad shoes built for comfort." At that time George Griffin lived at 20 Beach street, facing St. John's park. Francis Griffin was the son-in-law of Andrew S. Norwood. His first wife was a daughter of Comfort Sands and half-sister to Robert C. Sands, the writer. He lived at No. 6 Bond street as late as 1850.