180 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1869

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1869
Trustees of Mary L. Barbey, a Lorillard daughter, build 180 Duane Street
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Built in 1868-69, 180 Duane Street belonged to the trustees of Mary L. Barbey, a daughter of the tobacconist Peter Lorillard. John B. Snook designed it as one of four identical neo-Grec stores, with brick quoins, stone sills and a wrought-iron fire escape up the center bay.
“This building was constructed for the Trustees of Mary L. Barbey, daughter of tobacconist Peter Lorillard.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1965
Butter merchant W.J. Ludwig occupies 180 Duane Street from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s
Wholesalers of butter and eggs, among them William Schlechter and Charles Seidenwerg's Sons, occupied the building in the 1940s. The butter merchant W.J. Ludwig then used it as his base through the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. When the district report was written it was used for storage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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