One Seaport Plaza

199 Water Street | also 186 Front Street, 1 Seaport Plaza, 192 Front Street | Financial District | built 1993

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1816
Fire destroys the original buildings of the block that One Seaport Plaza now covers; owners rebuild bigger
An earlier set of buildings stood on this site, a block that archaeologists call the Telco Block. A fire in 1816 destroyed the original structures. When the landowners rebuilt, they made each new building as big as its lot would hold, since land in the city was always worth a great deal.
Source: southstreetseaportmuseum.org
1981
Archaeologists dig up an earlier city block here before the tower is built, finding eleven privies and eight cisterns
Before One Seaport Plaza rose, an earlier block of 19th-century commercial buildings on this site was excavated in 1981, using almost the entire city block. Federal funding for the tower triggered the dig under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The team recorded eleven privies and eight cisterns, built close together in the backyards, which helps explain how cholera could spread through drinking water.
Source: southstreetseaportmuseum.org
1984
Jack Resnick & Sons completes One Seaport Plaza
Construction on the 35-story, 134-meter office tower at 199 Water Street runs from 1982 to 1984, to designs by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects for owner Jack Resnick & Sons. Its roughly 1.1 million square feet house tenants including Cantor Fitzgerald and Stripe, and the tower earns LEED certification in 2012, 2017, and 2023.
Source: Wikipedia

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