186 Franklin Street

Tribeca | built 1890

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

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1890
Jewelry merchant Samuel Charles Welsh builds a six-story loft at 186-188 Franklin Street
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In 1890 the jewelry merchant Samuel Charles Welsh had this six-story store and loft building put up on Franklin Street, clearing away two masonry dwellings to make room. Martin V. B. Ferdon was the architect and James P. Niblo the builder. The Welsh family held the property for many years, and later tenants included a metal company and several glass firms before the upper floors became apartments.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1890
Martin V. B. Ferdon reuses one arcaded design on Franklin and Hudson Streets
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The architect Martin V. B. Ferdon designed this building with wide and narrow segmental arches, stone voussoirs and smooth piers. He used the same scheme at 175 Franklin Street (1889-90) and 77-79 Hudson Street (1893-94), so the three buildings share their principal elements. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the trio as an example of Ferdon's repetitive approach in what became the Tribeca West Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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