150 Duane Street

also 123 West Broadway, 117 West Broadway, 119 West Broadway | Tribeca | built 1865

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  1. 1865

    Benkhard and Hutton finish a corner loft at Duane Street and West Broadway

    Dry-goods merchants James Benkhard and Benjamin H. Hutton completed the corner building at Nos. 150-152 in 1865, with No. 148 beside it. It combines Italianate and Second Empire styles, with sandstone fronts above cast-iron storefronts, a segmental-arched window pattern and corner quoins. The West Broadway side pairs buff stone trim with red brick. Benkhard died on April 21, 1865, the year it was finished.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1876

    September 20

    William S. Mount opens a shop of Turkish rugs and embroidered goods in a dry-goods district

    On September 20, 1876 Mount began business in the building as a dealer in what he called Turkish goods, a sharp change from the neighboring dry-goods houses. His opening notice listed Turkish and Persian rugs, embroidered table covers, neckties, chair covers, jackets, cushion covers and slippers. American relations with the Ottoman Empire had been shaky until a treaty was signed in 1862, and merchants like him were importing such wares.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1892

    Whiting Paper, billed as the second-largest paper maker in the world, fills the upper floors

    By 1892 Whiting Paper Co. had taken nearly all of the upper floors of Nos. 150-152, with the United States Express Co. on the ground floor. William Whiting founded the company in 1865 and ran its paper mill in Massachusetts, where fine writing and envelope papers were made. It billed itself as second only to a Scottish mill in size, and in 1901 employed 373 men, 10 boys aged 16 to 18, 9 children under 16 and 25 women.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1897

    December 5

    A fire starting next door at No. 148 spreads to the corner building and damages its roof

    A fire that began at 8:16 p.m. on December 5, 1897, on the third floor of No. 148 Duane, spread to Nos. 150-152. Firefighters took two and a half hours to control it. No. 148 was declared destroyed, and the roof of the corner building was badly damaged. Once both buildings were repaired, Whiting Paper rented the four upper floors of No. 148 as well, and so occupied everything above the ground floor in both.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1912

    June

    Whiting Paper leaves for Seventh Avenue and shoe companies take over the corner building

    After decades at Duane Street and West Broadway, Whiting Paper announced in June 1912 that it had leased five floors in a new building at Seventh Avenue and 14th Street. Shoe concerns then took over Nos. 150-152, among them T. R. Emerson Shoe Co. in 1914, and the M. J. Saks Shoe Company in 1942. The upper floors became apartments in a 1990 renovation.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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