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English: Dwarfed by its neighbors, the house at 143 Allen Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side is today the sole survivor of what was once a row of five similar ones built in 1831 by ship captain George Sutton toward the end of the initial phase of the neighborhood's urbanization, when the land once owned by James de Lancey, which had earlier been seized by the city government due to his Loyalist sympathies during the Revolution, was opened to developers. The Federal architectural style, which at the time was nearing the end of its period of popularity on America's East Coast (it would persist in the trans-Appalachian hinterlands for another decade or two), is exemplified by such features as brownstone lintels and windowsills and a cross-gable roof pierced with dormer windows. At the time the house was built, Sutton owned the Empress which regularly sailed the "Cotton Triangle" between New York and Charleston, South Carolina; soon he'd elevate himself to the post of shipmaster for the New York and Charleston Packet Line. Sutton never lived in the house himself; rather, it was an income-generating rental property whose tenants were largely fellow mariners, and it was apparently also used as a boardinghouse for part of the time Sutton owned it. The house was sold in 1834 to George M. Clearman, a grocer who converted the ground floor to commercial space for his shop, and passed through numerous hands in the years since. It became a New York City landmark in 2010.