145 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1856

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1856
A flour and grocery wholesaler builds a five-story store and loft at 145 Duane Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the building to 1855-56 and names William R. Foster, a flour and grocery wholesaler, as its builder. It stands where a brick building put to light manufacturing once stood, along with a tenement at the back of the lot. The Italianate facade is brownstone, painted over, with three bays of segmental-arched windows on each floor.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
Wool brokers lease the building in the 1880s, and shoe wholesalers follow
O. N. Purdy & Co., a wool brokerage, rented the building during the 1880s. Later occupants came from the shoe wholesaling trade and included the Mutual Shoe Co., Levy Bros. Shoe Co. and the Blog Shoe Finding Co. The ground floor now holds commercial space and the upper floors are apartments.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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