18 North Moore Street

Tribeca | built 1894

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1894

   August 10

   Architect George Pelham replaces a plan to alter the old building with a new tenement

   In July 1894 George F. Pelham filed plans to alter the existing four-story building for owners Richard and Edward Block. On August 10 he filed new plans for a five-story replacement instead. The Real Estate Record & Guide called it an apartment house, noting features like dumbwaiters, electric bells and speaking tubes. Pelham matched details of the Blocks' 1880 corner building at No. 16, so the two look built together.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1908

   The two ground-floor stores at Nos. 16 and 18 are joined into one

   In 1908 the eastern storefront of No. 18 was combined with the store of the neighboring building at No. 16 North Moore Street. The upper floors were never joined. The shared storefront meant the two properties had to be owned together.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1980

   Artist Joseph Nechvatal lists this address while showing a wall-size mural

   By 1980 Joseph Nechvatal, born in Chicago in 1951, was living at 18 North Moore Street. He had arrived in New York in 1979 and joined the artist group Colab. A 1980 issue of the journal Umbrella listed this address in noting his large temporary mural, lit with colored theatrical lights and a sound track, addressing the threat of nuclear war.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 2005

   The facade is restored and a new cornice is made, copied from No. 16

   In 2005 the building's facade was restored and a new cornice fabricated, modeled on the surviving one next door. The original cornice had probably been removed during a 1957 renovation that made the building into two apartments per floor, when the facade was also painted white. The work restored the resemblance between Nos. 16 and 18.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• George Pelham's 1895 18 North Moore StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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