Richards Kingsland & Co. Building
158 Chambers Street | Tribeca | built 1915
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1854
A three-story house at 158 Chambers Street is offered for $23,000
A three-story house with an attic at 158 Chambers Street was put up for sale in April 1854. The asking price for the 26-foot-wide property was $23,000, a sign of how valuable the former residential street had become to businesses. By April 1856 it had been replaced by a new store. This was an earlier building on the site.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1856
Mirror maker Richards Kingsland & Co. moves into the new store at 158 Chambers Street
In April 1856 a newly built five-story Italianate store at 158 Chambers Street was advertised for lease, and Richards Kingsland & Co. moved in within a month. Founded in 1790, the firm made ornate looking glasses and had shown at the 1853 Crystal Palace exhibition. Less than a year after signing its lease it announced an auction of its whole stock because it was closing.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1860
Dry goods dealer Angell & Co. installs a 24-inch engine to drive its hydraulic pumps at 158 Chambers Street
Angell & Co., wholesale dry goods dealers, took the building after the mirror firm left. The New York Times reported on January 19, 1860 that it had installed a 24-inch engine to drive its hydraulic pumps. The Daytonian page presents the firm as an early adopter, since Ericsson's caloric engine had been introduced as a practical machine only the year before.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1878
A fire guts the top floors of 158 Chambers Street next to the Chambers-Street Hospital
On December 19, 1878 a fire broke out on the fifth floor of 158 Chambers Street, where the Knickerbocker Coffee & Spice Mills was a tenant. Firemen had trouble reaching it, and the top two floors were gutted. Neighbors feared the blaze would reach the Chambers-Street Hospital next door at No. 160, but the wind blew the other way. An 1869 fire and another in 1887 hit the same building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1984
Potter JoAnn Meehan opens Chambers Street Pottery in a former loft building at 158 Chambers Street
In the late 1970s potter JoAnn Meehan was looking for a home and studio. The Daily News reported on March 8, 1984 that she had bought retail and residential space in an abandoned Tribeca building about to become a co-op, renovated it and opened Chambers Street Pottery. Renovations completed in 1981 had given the building one apartment per floor above the shop.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1856 Richards Kingsland & Co. Building - 158 Chambers StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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