102 Franklin Street

Tribeca | built 1868

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

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1868
Joseph Frailey Smith and Henry Lewis build a Second Empire loft at 102 Franklin Street
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Smith and Lewis put up this five-story building in 1866-68 in place of a frame dwelling, matching the neighboring loft at 104 Franklin Street built at about the same time. The painted stone front has Corinthian pilasters, molded window surrounds, and a cast-iron cornice, and the layering of these elements marks it as Second Empire. The building is roughly 25 feet wide and 100 feet deep.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
Dry-goods houses from St. Louis to Milwaukee keep offices at 102 Franklin Street
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In the 1890s the building held New York offices of out-of-town firms including I. Harris & Co. of St. Louis, the Frank Howard Manufacturing Company of Atchison, Kansas, the Robert Krause company of Davenport, Iowa, and J. H. Rice & Friedman of Milwaukee. Dry goods firms stayed on through the 1940s, when Rhode Island Textiles, Wickford Fabrics and the Wilson Textile Company had offices here.
“Numerous dry goods firms based in other cities had offices in this building in the 1890s.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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