100 Reade Street

Tribeca | built 1860

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  1. 1860

    A.T. Stewart has a 100-foot dry goods store and loft built on Reade Street

    In 1859-60 the merchant Alexander T. Stewart had architect John B. Snook put up two adjoining buildings that together run 100 feet along Reade Street, which replace two frame dwellings and several brick ones. In the 1860s the importers Pastor & Hardt had the store at 96-98 Reade Street, and the dry goods wholesalers Carhart, Bacon & Greene had 100-102. A wool broker and a shipping agent for Rumford's Yeast Powder and Columbia River salmon also rented space.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1860

    The cast-iron storefront here repeats the 'Stewart capital' from Stewart's Broadway store

    The ground floor was made by Daniel Badger's Architectural Iron Works and keeps fluted Corinthian columns. Their capitals are the 'Stewart capital', a design with a caduceus (the emblem of commerce) between two cornucopias. The same capital had appeared in marble on Stewart's department store at Broadway and Reade Street, and the Badger firm illustrated the iron version in its 1865 catalog.

    “…employ the "Stewart capital," a variant of the Corinthian order that featuring a caduceus, the emblem of commerce, flanked by cornucopias…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1924

    A blueprint paper company buys the building and keeps its successor here until 1961

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    From the 1880s to the 1960s the building housed printing and paper-goods firms, among them C.L. Berger & Sons, makers of engraving instruments, and the Fulton Blue Print Co. In 1924 the New York Blue Print Paper Co. bought it. Its successor, Charles Bruning Co., also began leasing floors in the neighboring buildings at 94 and 104 Reade Street in 1936. In 1943 the second floors here and at No. 94 were joined by openings, which were closed when Bruning left in 1961.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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