176 Church Street
also 88 Reade Street, 178A Church Street, 178 Church Street | Tribeca | built 1953
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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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- 1773
Trinity Church sets this corner aside as a burial ground for its African-American parishioners
From 1773 to 1802 this lot at Reade and Church Streets was reserved by Trinity Church as a burial ground for its African-American parishioners. It once reached about thirty feet farther east, until the IND subway line was built in 1928-30. It was an earlier use of the land, long before any commercial building.
“From 1773 to 1802 this lot (which extended about thirty feet further east prior to the construction of the IND subway line in 1928-30) was set aside by Trinity Church…”
- 1860
Druggists Harral, Risley & Kitchen build two five-story lofts on the corner
In 1860-61 the drug firm of Harral, Risley & Kitchen built two five-story store and loft buildings on this site at Reade and Church Streets. They stood until the present two-story building replaced them in the early 1950s.
- 1952
M.E. Ungarleider designs a two-story orange-brick commercial building at Reade and Church Streets
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Reade Street Associates Inc. built the present building in 1952-53 to a design by M.E. Ungarleider. It has a steel frame and a second story of glazed orange brick with large multipane windows. It measures about fifty feet along Reade Street and sixty along Church Street.
“The building was designed by M.E. Ungarleider and constructed in 1952-53 for Reade Street Associates Inc.”
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