176 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1869

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1869
John B. Snook builds a five-story store for the Lorillard tobacco family at 176 Duane Street
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In 1868-69 the trustees of Jacob Lorillard, son of the tobacconist Peter Lorillard, built this five-story neo-Grec store and loft. John B. Snook designed it on the same building application as 178 Duane Street. It replaced a wood-frame dwelling. The Lorillards were prominent in the snuff and tobacco business and held large tracts of New York real estate.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
The butter-and-egg wholesaler Zenith-Godley moves into 176 Duane Street in the mid-1930s
In 1891 the building held a baking powder company and a coffee and spice grinding factory. From the mid-1930s it was home to Zenith-Godley Co., a butter and eggs wholesaler, which was still there when the district report was written. A fixed awning added in 1924 survives at the ground floor.
“In 1891 the building contained a baking powder concern and a coffee and spice grinding factory. At present it contains the Zenith-Godley Co.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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