11 Harrison Street

Tribeca | built 1893

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  1. 1868

    August 26

    A three-year-old dies in a scalding accident at the rooming house that stood on this lot

    Before the present loft, a rooming house stood at 11 Harrison Street. The New York Herald of August 26, 1868 reported that three-year-old Frederick C. Eberling died after he fell into a tub that had been left full of hot water in the hallway. That same year owner Delia Connelly hired architect William Graul to add two and a half stories and turn the house into a commercial building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1893

    Mary Clarkson has architect T. R. Jackson replace the old building with a seven-story warehouse

    Mary Clarkson tore down the older building and in June 1893 hired T. R. Jackson to plan a seven-story warehouse for the site. She advertised it as ready by November 1, and it was finished before year's end at a cost of $25,000. Jackson mixed Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles, with Corinthian capitals and a carved panel of vines and flowers.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1920

    April 13

    Butter and egg merchants meet here while a food strike brings riots to the market district

    In spring 1920 union strikes crippled food supply across Manhattan, involving about 1,600 men. On April 13, as strikers hurled rocks and police swung clubs, the Evening Telegram reported that dozens of butter and egg dealers gathered at 11 Harrison Street. The headline that day said police were riding trucks to move supplies.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1921

    February 19

    John K. Lasher and Brother, in the building for nearly three decades, goes into receivership

    One of the first butter and egg firms at 11 Harrison Street was John K. Lasher & Bro., which operated there for decades after the building opened. According to the New-York Tribune of February 19, 1921, it had gone into receivership. William S. Yarick & Co., another tenant, followed on December 31 that year, and a third firm, Chester E. Saxton Co., was sharing the space in 1922.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1986

    A renovation turns the egg warehouse into an art studio, an office and residential lofts

    After the Faehndrich butter and egg firm, which bought the building after the Depression and was still there in 1981, the changing neighborhood pushed commerce out. A renovation in 1986 gave the ground floor to an art studio and the second floor to an office, with a single residential loft on each floor above. In May 2019 the Irish furniture maker Orior opened a showroom here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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