115 South Street
Financial District | built 1840
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1840
Slate, Gardiner & Howell, a mercantile firm, owns the double building at 114-115 South Street
A double building was put up at 114-115 South Street in 1840 for the mercantile firm of Slate, Gardiner & Howell. The firm used number 115 itself until 1860. The report credits the Greek Revival ground floor, with its massive granite piers and molded granite lintel, as original to that period.
“Constructed as a double building in 1840, this structure was owned by the prominent mercantile firm of Slate, Gardiner & Howell, who occupied No. 115 until 1860.”
- 1847
China-trade merchant Abiel Abbot Low moves his business to 115 South Street
Abiel Abbot Low had worked at the American firm Russell & Co. in Canton and became a partner there in 1840. Back in New York he began his own business in 1841 with offices on Fletcher Street, then in 1847 moved to 115 South Street, which still stands. Three years later he and his brother Josiah moved into the counting-house at 167-171 John Street.
- 1880
John J. Flynn runs a bar and lodging house at 115 South Street in the 1880s
In the 1880s John J. Flynn ran a bar and lodging house here, and the ground floor was altered then with slender cast-iron columns. The narrow columns contrast with the earlier massive granite piers still standing at either side of the building.
“During the 1880s, when John J. Flynn ran a bar and lodging house here, the ground floor was altered with cast-iron rectangular columns.”
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