175 Franklin Street
Tribeca | built 1890
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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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- 1890
Jeweler Samuel Charles Welsh builds 175 Franklin Street, replacing a small frame structure
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Architect Martin V. B. Ferdon designed this six-story Romanesque Revival building in 1889-90 for Samuel Charles Welsh, a jewelry wholesaler whose family kept the property for many years. On the site stood a small wooden structure, with a masonry building behind it, both of which were cleared for the new loft. Welsh soon commissioned a similar building from Ferdon across the street at 186-188 Franklin Street.
“…designed by prolific architect Martin V. B. Ferdon for jewelry wholesaler Samuel Charles Welsh, whose family retained ownership of the property for many years.”
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