Thomas N. Dale & Co. Building

18 Warren Street | also 18A Warren Street | Tribeca | built 1920

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  1. 1794

    Robert Harpur, deputy secretary of New York State, lives in an earlier house at 18 Warren Street

    Robert Harpur, Deputy Secretary of the State of New York, lived in 1794 in an earlier house on the lot at 18 Warren Street, which was a half block away from the City Commons, now City Hall Park. By the 1850s commerce was overtaking the residential block. The last resident of the old house, tailor Benjamin M. Noe, stayed until 1854, when the homes there were replaced.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1854

    Three Italianate loft buildings replace the old houses at 18 to 22 Warren Street

    In 1854 the former houses at 18 through 22 Warren Street gave way to identical five-story Italianate lofts with prominent cornices. Elliptically arched windows on the second and third floors sat under cornices on scrolled brackets, with scrolled keystones on the second. Most of these 1850s details were shaved off when the upper floors were converted to apartments in 1989.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1855

    June 1

    Thomas N. Dale forms a new partnership for his trimmings firm at 18 Warren Street

    A notice of June 1, 1855 announced that Thomas N. Dale had formed a partnership with George Richmond to carry on his firm at 18 Warren Street. J. Leander Bishop wrote in 1860 that he believed Dale was the first to make clothiers' and tailors' trimmings a specialty. The firm sold braid, buttons and fabrics, ran a silk mill in Paterson, New Jersey, and had branch offices in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Paris.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1861

    December 22

    A former clerk of the Dale firm is arrested on a charge of stealing silk, buttons and braid

    Inventory shortages at Thomas N. Dale & Co. led to close watch on employees in 1861. On December 22, David Kilmer, a recent clerk, was taken before Justice Connolly, accused of stealing sewing silk, buttons, braid and buckles worth $500 over time. A Third Avenue retailer who bought the goods was also arrested. Earlier that year Dale had given $300 and later $500 to the Union Defence Fund.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1908

    May 2

    Firefighters collapse in a gas-filled basement at the Neal & Brinker hardware store

    At about 7 p.m. on May 2, 1908, firefighters were called to 18 Warren Street, the building the hardware dealers Neal & Brinker occupied, when smoke came through the sidewalk. The burst gas pipes put the men of Engine 7 in danger in the subcellar, and Lieutenant Charles McConnell dropped unconscious into flood water. Two firefighters who tried to lift him collapsed too, and six men were carried out unconscious. Damage was about $2,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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