105 Reade Street
also 107 Reade Street | Tribeca | built 1861
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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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- 1835
Merchant Nicholas Gibert buys the Reade Street lots where No. 105-107 now stands
In 1835 Gibert, a wealthy merchant whose large brick house stood at 121 Chambers Street, bought a parcel running from 103 to 107 Reade Street. By his death in 1851 the Chambers Street house was a boarding house, and tradesmen and servants lived in the four houses he owned on the Reade Street frontage. This was an earlier use of the site, before the 1861 store and loft replaced the houses.
- 1861
The Gibert brothers split their father's lots and build matching stores; Henry Bates leases No. 105-107
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In 1860 Gibert's sons Frederick and James divided the property, Frederick taking 121 Chambers Street and 103 Reade Street and James taking 105 and 107 Reade Street. They appear to have hired one architect for both buildings, which went up in 1861. Henry W. Bates leased No. 105-107 in the early 1860s, and by the early 1870s the Emmet Hammer Co. occupied it.
“…in 1860 his sons Frederick and James entered into an agreement whereby Frederick received the lots at 121 Chambers Street and 103 Reade Street…”
- 1861
The 1861 storefront here carries Badger foundry plaques and matches 103 Reade Street
In the eastern section the second-story center window sits in an aedicule, a frame of Corinthian pilasters topped with a triangular pediment, while the western section matches the facade of 103 Reade Street. The original cast-iron storefront is identical in design to the one at No. 103. Foundry plaques at the column bases are marked for Architectural Iron Works, D.D. Badger, Supt.
“…there are foundry plaques at the bases of the columns marked "Architectural Iron Works, D.D. Badger, Supt.”
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