10 Leonard Street

Tribeca | built 1885

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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1885

    The Goelet family adds a seven-story warehouse at 10-12 Leonard Street beside their Hudson Street building

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    Robert and Ogden Goelet, from a socially prominent and highly successful New York family, had this extension built in 1884-85 beside their adjacent warehouse at 84-94 Hudson Street. Edward Hale Kendall designed it, and Sinclair & Wills built it, on a site that held a two-story and a three-story commercial building. In the early twentieth century a seven-story link joined it fully to the Hudson Street warehouse.

    “…built in 1884-85 by Sinclair & Wills for Robert and Ogden Goelet, members of one of the city's most successful and socially prominent families…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1885

    Kendall's Romanesque Revival warehouse stacks stone bands and chessboard brickwork in three double-story tiers

    The six-bay facade repeats Edward Hale Kendall's design for the Hudson Street warehouse. Cornices divide it into three two-story tiers, with horizontal stone bands and chessboard-patterned brick set against rows of piers. Molded arches crown the seventh-story windows, and a corbelled brick cornice and stepped parapet finish the top.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1905

    Rear passages join 10-12 Leonard Street to the Goelets' 1-3 Worth Street warehouse

    In 1905 passages opened at the rear united the Leonard Street building with the Goelets' warehouse at 1-3 Worth Street, built in 1896 to McKim, Mead & White's design for dry-goods storage. The Worth Street building later held groceries and the Jaburg Brothers' bakers' supplies, then the United States Egg Corporation on its ground floor.

    “In 1905 the building was united to No. 10-12 Leonard Street via the opening of rear passages.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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