156 Beekman Street

also 105 South Street, 104 South Street, 106 South Street | Financial District | built 1823

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1823
A three-story building with a peaked roof is built in 1823 on the corner of South and Beekman Streets
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's South Street Seaport report says the corner lot at 104 South Street, also numbered 154 Beekman Street, first held a three-story building with a peaked roof, put up in 1823. Some of its framing may survive inside the four-story brick structure there now, whose present facade dates from between 1855 and 1866. This was an earlier building on the lot.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
The building at 105 South Street gains a fifth floor in 1870 and loses it again after a fire in 1950
The LPC report says the first building on the lot at 105 South Street was a four-story structure of 1824-25 with two dormer windows in its steep roof. No record of demolition or new construction was found, so the present brick building may incorporate it. It was raised to five stories in 1870, but a 1950 fire led to the fifth story being removed, and the brick is now covered with an ochre-colored veneer.
“In 1870 the building was raised to five stories, but after a fire in 1950 this fifth story was removed.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby