157 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1857

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

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1857
Gun dealer Orison Blunt builds a five-story brownstone store and loft at 157 Duane Street
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This five-story Italianate building was erected in 1856-57 for Orison Blunt, a gun dealer, on a lot where a masonry dwelling with a shop at its base had stood. Its brownstone facade has four bays of segmental-headed windows on each floor and a bracketed sheet-metal cornice, and the cast-iron pilasters at street level still carry cartouches reading "157."
“This structure was built in 1856-57 for gun dealer Orison Blunt.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1897
157 Duane Street houses bottle and lithography suppliers, then a shoe company
In the late 1890s 157 Duane Street held suppliers of bottles and of lithography. By the 1940s it housed the Midland Shoe Corporation. When the landmarks commission wrote its report on Tribeca West, a restaurant occupied the ground floor, with residential use above.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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