159 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1856

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1855
Hardware merchant Alfred F. Lagrave builds a five-story store and loft at 159 Duane Street
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In 1855-56 Alfred F. Lagrave, a hardware merchant, had a narrow five-story store and loft building put up in the middle of the block on the north side of Duane Street. It was 25 feet wide and its upper floors were faced in brownstone, an Italianate design with segmental window heads. The cast-iron piers at street level still carry cartouches reading "159".
“This structure was built in 1855-56 for hardware merchant Alfred F. Lagrave.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
A shoe salesroom takes over the ground floor of 159 Duane Street in the 1930s
In the early twentieth century the building served as storage and light manufacturing space. By the 1930s the first story held a shoe salesroom, with stock kept on the floors above. When the district report was written, the occupant was the Crystal Shoe Company, Inc.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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