143 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1857

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  1. 1835

    A grocer's family lives in a house at 143 Duane Street, with a bill poster's small house behind

    In 1835 a 25-foot-wide house stood here, home to the family of James Dunn, who kept a grocery on Anthony Street (later Worth Street). A smaller house in the rear yard was probably that of Andrew J. W. Butler, a bill poster. This earlier building was demolished in 1856 by the estate of George Colgate to make way for the present commercial building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1857

    The Colgate estate completes a five-story Italianate store building on Duane Street

    The estate of George Colgate began work on this five-story Italianate building in 1856 and finished it in 1857. It is faced in red brick above a cast-iron storefront and topped by a pressed-metal cornice with scrolled brackets. Early tenants were dry-goods firms such as Naef & Schaeppi, dealers in silks and ribbons, and Richard Bell & Co., linen sellers.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1883

    Two immigrants found the cigar firm Ghio & Rovira at 143 Duane Street

    A. P. Ghio, born in Genoa in 1853, joined with Benito Rovira, a young Spaniard from Barcelona, to form a cigar manufacturing firm here in 1883. Tobacco magazine praised Rovira's judgment of leaf and his skill as a salesman. A 1884 ad sought tobacco strippers at the address, and the firm grew enough to move to larger quarters on 33rd Street a year later.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1893

    September 14

    A fire in a book publisher's rooms reignites overnight and collapses the roof

    Fire broke out at S. Feinberg & Co., book importers on the third floor, around 6 p.m. on September 14, 1893. Paper and ink fed the flames, which reached paper dealer M. B. Belden's storerooms. Firefighters put it out and left an insurance patrolman, who stamped out small rekindled fires until a bigger blaze started on the fourth floor around 4 a.m. The roof fell in, Belden lost everything, and he put his loss at $200,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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