15 South William Street

also 55 Stone Street | Financial District | built 1839

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

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1660
Sloop captain Wessel Evertsen's large double house stands on this lot in 1660
Wessel Evertsen, a sloop captain for the Dutch West India Company, acquired a homestead here in 1646. By 1660 the middle third of it held a large double house, marked N-14 on the annotated Castello Plan. His heirs held the land until 1726, after which it was subdivided, and the tobacconist James Bryar later owned this lot. This was an earlier building on the site.
“…acquired in 1646 by Wessel Evertsen, a sloop captain for the Dutch West India Company. In 1660 this portion of the homestead contained a large double house…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Amos Eno hires C. P. H. Gilbert to give the Stone Street building a Dutch-style South William front
Real estate investor Amos F. Eno bought the property in 1904 and four years later commissioned architect C. P. H. Gilbert to redesign and reorient it. The work of 1908-09 added a stepped-gable South William Street front of honey-colored Roman brick with limestone trim. The Greek Revival Stone Street facade from the 1830s, built for Bryar, was left in place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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