19 South William Street
Financial District | built 1839
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1658
Aris Otto runs a tavern in a Dutch house on this lot
In 1658 Michiel Paulussen sold a house and its lot here, shown as N-12 on the annotated Castello Plan, to Aris Otto, who ran a tavern in it. In 1663 Gerrit Hendricksen bought the property from Otto's widow and her second husband. In the early 1800s the merchant Josiah Shippery lived on the lot. These were earlier buildings on the site.
“In 1658 Michiel (or Mighiel) Paulussen sold an existing house and its lot on this site to Aris Otto, who maintained a tavern there.”
- 1836
James Hall rebuilds after the Great Fire, and importers and a publisher rent space
James Hall, a merchant, owned the lot at the 1835 fire, when his building was the home of Mathew L. Davis, a Pearl Street merchant. In 1836-39 he put up the present five-story store and loft building and kept it for many years. Tenants included the importers Cameron & Brand and the publisher J. T. Skinner, and they used both Stone and South William Street addresses.
“Between 1836 and 1839 Hall erected on the site a store and loft building which he retained for many years.”
- 1905
Amos Eno owns the building; his nephew Amos Pinchot and wife Gertrude later own it
By 1905 real estate investor Amos F. Eno owned the building, which held a wholesale wine store with four floors of offices above. Later owners included his nephew Amos Pinchot, a lawyer who helped organize the Bull Moose Progressive Party in 1912, and Pinchot's wife Gertrude Minturn Pinchot, who worked with the National Woman's Party and the early Birth Control League.
“By 1905, the building was owned by real estate investor Amos F. Eno and contained a wholesale wine store at the first level, with four stories of offices above.”
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