137 West Broadway

Tribeca | built 1867

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1867
Importer Jacob Pecare builds 137-139 West Broadway as a speculation and sells it quickly
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Attorney and importer Jacob Pecare put up this five-story store and loft building in 1867 as a speculative investment. Soon after it was finished he sold it to the varnish manufacturer Bernhard Mayer. Nineteenth-century tenants included the wool brokers Gilbert H. Falconar and Simon Hesse, and later ones included the Wallach Rubber & Shoe Co., P. A. Sawyer & Co. and Angert Manufacturing, makers of brass and bronze castings.
“Constructed as speculative investment by attorney and importer Jacob Pecare in 1867, the building was sold to varnish manufacturer Bernhard Mayer soon after completion.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1867
Alfred A. Dunham gives 137-139 West Broadway an Italianate and Second Empire front
Architect Alfred A. Dunham faced the upper floors in Dorchester stone and mixed Italianate and Second Empire features, with segmental arches on the middle floors and round arches at the fifth story. The original cast-iron storefront columns and piers survive, one with part of a foundry mark. The building replaced two brick dwellings with shops on the ground floor and is about 33 feet wide.
“Executed by architect Alfred A. Dunham, its design combines elements of the Italianate and Second Empire styles.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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