19 Bond Street

also 357 Lafayette Street, 359 Lafayette Street, 17 Bond Street | NoHo | built 1880

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  1. 1880

    Peter Tostevin builds a neo-Grec loft on the old Baker house lot at 19 Bond Street

    Bouton & Smith bought the former mansion of importer Lewis Baker in 1879, a lot running back to Shinbone Alley, and put up a five-story loft there. Peter Tostevin, better known as a builder, doubled as the architect and died suddenly on December 8, 1879, most likely after his last commission. His sons took over as Peter Tostevin Sons, and the red-brick building was completed in 1880.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1885

    A. H. Andrews & Co., a Chicago school-furniture maker, becomes an early tenant of 19 Bond Street

    A New York branch of A. H. Andrews & Co., the largest furniture maker in Chicago and one that focused on school furniture, was in the building by the mid-1880s. Baker, Pratt & Co., another school-furniture firm here, dissolved at the end of 1884 and was taken over by Andrews. In 1886 a rival bidder, Nathaniel Johnson, told The New York Times that Andrews won school-board contracts even when his own bids were lower.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1902

    January 26

    A fire in the top floors of 19 Bond Street is slowed by subway digging next door

    A fire broke out in the cloth-sponging and refinishing works on the upper floors, the second blaze there in two weeks. Subway excavation beside the building on Elm Street, later Lafayette Street, hampered the firefighters, and the damage was put at about $25,000. The employer, John W. Fleck, went back inside to rescue Richard Crotty, a deaf worker who had not heard the alarm.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1922

    The Gerofsky family buys 19 Bond Street and runs paper and rag businesses here until the 1980s

    Herman Gerofsky bought the building in 1922. Family businesses trading in papermaking supplies, new rags and textile waste were its only tenants until about 1985. After a new owner, Renaissance I Associates, took over, the building was turned into a condominium with joint live/work space for artists within four years.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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