13 White Street
also 17 White Street, 15 White Street, 17B White Street | Tribeca | built 1868
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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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- 1868
Henry Lewis and Joseph Frailey Smith build a six-story Second Empire store, 85 feet wide, at 13-19 White Street
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Henry Lewis and Joseph Frailey Smith had this building put up in 1867-68. The sandstone structure looks like one structure about 85 feet wide but was built in two parts and may once have been three joined buildings. The easternmost part has since been demolished. It took the place of a pair of frame houses and a building put to hazardous use, and it is topped by a slate mansard roof with an elaborate central dormer.
- 1895
Dry goods agents from Mobile and Cleveland rent offices at 13-19 White Street in the 1890s
During the 1890s the building offered office space to out-of-town dry goods firms, among them Pollock & Bernheimer of Mobile, Alabama, which dealt in linens, white goods and woolens, and Joseph Metzenbaum of Cleveland, Ohio, a notions dealer. In the 1940s it housed a mirror manufacturer.
- 1979
Soho Photo Gallery opens at 15 White Street in a former live poultry market
The cooperative Soho Photo Gallery, begun in 1971 on Prince Street, opened at 15 White Street in December 1979. One of its founders, David Chalk, found the ground-floor space in one of Tribeca's early co-ops, where a live poultry market had left feathers and mess. Members spent five months building the galleries themselves, and it became the longest-running photo gallery in the city.
Source: tribecatrib.com
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