18 Harrison Street

Tribeca | built 1885

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1885
Detlef Lienau designs a slim five-story warehouse at 18 Harrison for carpet importer Jeremiah Dimick
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In 1885 Jeremiah Dimick, who imported and made carpeting, oilcloth and matting and ran two stores elsewhere in today's Tribeca, built this five-story building at 18 Harrison Street. The architect was Detlef Lienau, with Lewis H. Williams as builder. The brick front is only about eighteen and a half feet wide and has a cast-iron ground story.
“Constructed in 1885 for Jeremiah Dimick, it was designed by Detlef Lienau…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1886
Candy maker Henry Heide leases 18 Harrison and knocks through to his factory next door
Dimick did not use the building himself. He rented it to the candy merchant Henry Heide, who in 1886 joined it on the inside to his own factory at 14-16 Harrison Street. Heide had started his business in 1868 and had already moved through several premises, including one across the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
Honig & Klein, egg and dairy merchants, occupy 18 Harrison from 1920
The building passed into the produce trade of the Washington Market area. In 1908 the firm of Lambly & Alpaugh, dealers in produce and later butter, bought it. From 1920 through the 1930s it housed Honig & Klein, egg and dairy merchants, and other cheese and egg distributors followed in the 1940s and 1950s before it became residences.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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