17 Jay Street

Tribeca | built 1887

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1887
Liquor merchant Alexander Halliday builds 17 Jay Street, one of three identical buildings
In 1887 Alexander Halliday had D. & J. Jardine design a five-story store and loft building at 17 Jay Street, one of three identical buildings put up under a single New Building Application. John Castree developed the two matching buildings at 13 and 15 Jay Street. The building keeps its original cast-iron piers and pressed-metal cornice at the ground story, and Romanesque Revival-inspired foliate spandrels and a round-arched top-story arcade decorate its brick front.
“…constructed for Alexander Halliday in 1887 under the same New Building Application as the identical buildings at 13 and 15 Jay Street…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
Halliday runs his liquor business from 17 Jay Street before butter and egg wholesalers take over
Halliday, a liquor merchant, ran his business out of 17 Jay Street for many years. In the twentieth century the building was used by wholesalers of butter and eggs, like many buildings in the area. By the time of the district report it stood vacant.
“Alexander Halliday was a liquor merchant who conducted business from this address for many years.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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