182 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1869

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

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1869
Trustees for a Lorillard daughter build 182 Duane Street as a store and loft
Architect John B. Snook designed this five-story building in 1868-69 for the trustees of Catherine Kernochen. She was a daughter of the tobacconist Peter Lorillard, whose family was prominent in the snuff and tobacco trade and held large tracts of New York real estate. It is one of four near-identical Snook buildings in a row, 176 to 182 Duane Street.
“This building was constructed for the Trustees of Catherine Kernochen, daughter of tobacconist Peter Lorillard.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
Butter-and-egg wholesalers fill 182 Duane Street in the 1940s
By the 1940s the building held butter and egg wholesalers, among them W.W. Elzea and the Kesten Butter & Egg Company. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the district, the occupant was Harry Wils & Co., wholesalers of eggs and dairy products.
“In the 1940s the present building contained butter and eggs wholesalers such as W.W. Elzea and the Kesten Butter & Egg Company…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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