110 Chambers Street
Tribeca | built 1854
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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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- 1828
Dr. Austin L. Sands lives in a house at 110 Chambers Street before moving to Lafayette Place
Dr. Austin L. Sands, a well-known physician from the prominent Sands family of New York and Newport, lived in a house at 110 Chambers Street from 1828 to 1838. He then moved to 30 Lafayette Place, where he stayed until he died in 1877 while visiting Cairo, Egypt. The present building may incorporate that early nineteenth-century house, which Sands enlarged around 1854. This was an earlier building on the site.
- 1854
Austin L. Sands develops a store at 110 Chambers Street and rents it to hosiery and glove dealers
Around 1854 Austin L. Sands developed a brick Italianate store and loft building at 110 Chambers Street, paired with a similar one at No. 112 on land he leased from Trinity Church. When No. 110 was finished it was rented to Aaron Altmayer & Bro., wholesale hosiery and glove dealers, who stayed through 1865. Dry goods firms were then taking over the streets north and west of City Hall Park.
“Upon its completion, 110 Chambers Street was rented to the wholesale hosiery and glove dealers Aaron Altmayer & Bro., which remained in the building through 1865.”
- 1940
The Pearl Paint Co. occupies 110 Chambers Street after decades of hardware and cutlery firms
From about 1940 to 1955 the Pearl Paint Co. was a tenant at 110 Chambers Street. Over the years the building also held hardware and cutlery dealers from the 1870s on, a wholesale saddle and harness firm, and printing and engraving businesses. It stayed in the Sands family until 1906, and by the mid-twentieth century its ornament had been stripped and a fire escape added.
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