191 Front Street
also 89 South Street | Financial District | built 1980
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1794
Merchant Garrett Westful occupies the stores at 191 Front Street in 1794-95
According to the report, No. 191 may date to before 1793, when it could have been put up with No. 193 as a pair. If so, it began as a two-story building under a peaked roof, and the merchant Garrett Westful occupied its stores in 1794-95. Much of what stands today comes from 19th-century alterations.
- 1804
The mercantile house of Minturn & Champlin trades from this building
Minturn & Champlin, which the landmark report calls the leading mercantile establishment housed at 191 Front Street, occupied the building on and off from 1804 to 1816. Its tenancy began about a decade after the merchant Garrett Westful kept stores here.
- 1885
The Macy shipping firm moves in from next door after leaving No. 189
Josiah Macy & Son, the shipping house founded by a Nantucket sea captain, left 189 Front Street in 1885 and moved next door into No. 191. It stayed here until after the turn of the century.
“1885, when the firm moved next door to No. 191, where it remained until after the turn of the century…”
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