118 Chambers Street
Tribeca | built 1855
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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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- 1855
Merchant Luke H. Holmes builds an investment warehouse at 118 Chambers Street
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Luke H. Holmes, a merchant based on Maiden Lane, bought this lot from Trinity Church in 1851 and rebuilt it around 1855 as a five-story marble-fronted store and loft building. He held it as an investment until 1865. Over the years it housed dry goods, hardware and cutlery firms.
- 1875
Export merchant W. R. Crossman rents space at 118 Chambers Street from about 1875 to 1880
Among the tenants of 118 Chambers Street was W. R. Crossman & Bro., hardware commission merchants, listed here from about 1875 to 1880. The Landmarks Commission calls Crossman one of the city's leading export merchants of the nineteenth century. The building was then part of a cluster of hardware and cutlery businesses along Chambers Street.
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