26-90 E Loop Rd
Ca. 1910 

This block bounded by East Loop Road and East Entry Road is among the earliest to be developed for residential use in the area. It originally was the location of three great mansions, of which only one remains today. 50 East Entry Road (2a) was once the sight of a two-story frame structure with Colonial Revival and classical features. It was the family home of Johannes D. Hage, a successful Danish merchant who had emigrated to the United States in 1855. Hage paid the equivalent of $600k today for the mansion, where he and his wife Clara Merrick raised two children and remained for over 30 years. In 1975, the lot was subdivided and two new houses were built. The mansion was demolished in 2004. A remarkable two-and-a-half- story frame house with a grand porch framing its first floor once stood at 46 East Loop Road (2b). It was the residence of May Richmond Walker and her husband Prof. Arthur L. Walker until 1951. Mrs. Walker, who came from a politically prominent family nationally, originally settled in Todt Hill in 1898 with her first husband, with whom she had two children. After becoming a widow, she married Mr. Walker in 1929, who was a professor of metallurgy at Columbia University School of Engineering. The lot was subdivided in 2012, and the house was demolished in 2016. The only remaining house of this group was the family home of merchant James G. Clark Jr., who's father and grandfather had been prominent physicians on Staten Island. The striking two-story frame structure is located at 26 East Loop Road (2c), and maintains many of its original Neo-Classical features, most notably a two-story porch with a pointed pediment. After Clark's death in 1930, the family sold the mansion to John D. Leggett, a manufacturer from New Brighton. Leggett lived there with his family until his passing in 1946. The lot was subdivided in 1986, and two new houses were constructed.