104 Reade Street

also 106 Reade Street, 108 Reade Street | Tribeca | built 1920

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  1. 1861

    A wholesale grocer builds 104 Reade Street on land leased from Trinity Church

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    Charles G. Corley, a wholesale grocer, put up this five-and-a-half-story store and loft in 1860-61 as an investment, on a lot he leased from Trinity Church. It replaced a frame dwelling with a shop at the front, and at the back of the lot a brick building where light manufacturing took place. The Italianate facade seems to have borrowed from A.T. Stewart's building next door. Later tenants included the Mandel-Sankin Shoe Co. and the Horn Novelty Co.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1867

    Benjamin Hutton of Benkard & Hutton builds a fabric warehouse at 106-108 Reade Street

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    Hutton, the surviving partner in Benkard & Hutton, a leading importer of French fabrics, commissioned architect Samuel A. Warner to design a five-story building here in 1866-67. It replaced a brick dwelling and two frame dwellings, and probably extended the firm's store at 144 Duane Street. Benkard & Hutton likely stayed until 1873, when they moved uptown to Broome Street near Broadway.

    “Constructed in 1866-67 for Benjamin Hutton, the surviving partner in the firm of Benkard & Hutton, a leading importer and wholesaler of French fabrics…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1890

    Van Houten's cocoa makers rent space at 106-108 Reade Street in the 1890s

    After Hutton sold in 1873 to the stationery dealer Victor E. Mauger, who kept it until moving to Cincinnati in 1882, the building changed hands several times and ended up as an investment of the wool merchant and mill owner David L. Einstein. In the 1890s its tenant was C.J. Van Houten & Zoon, makers of Van Houten's Cocoa. Shoe wholesalers followed, and the Charles Bruning Co., sellers of blueprint paper, leased some upper floors from 1936 to 1961.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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