Gideon Tucker House

2 White Street | also 235 West Broadway | Tribeca | built 1809

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1. 1809

   Gideon Tucker builds a Dutch-style house at 2 White Street

   Plaster manufacturer and assistant alderman Gideon Tucker puts up the gambrel-roofed dwelling in an old-fashioned Dutch style, unusual by 1809 when most New York builders favored the newer Federal look. Splayed stone lintels and prominent dormers front a ground-floor store, with Tucker living upstairs until his death in 1845.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1842

   Abolitionist minister Theodore S. Wright is living at 2 White Street

   By 1842 the Presbyterian minister Theodore S. Wright occupies the house at 2 White Street. Wright, the first Black graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, led abolitionist organizing in the city and helped found the New York Vigilance Committee, which worked to stop free Black New Yorkers from being seized and sold into Southern slavery; he dies in 1847.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

3. 1966

   July 19

   The city designates 2 White Street a landmark

   New York designates the modest Dutch-style survivor at 2 White Street a city landmark on July 19, 1966. By then the little house, built in 1809, stood dwarfed by the office towers that had grown up around it in Tribeca over the preceding century.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 1990

   A nearby mosque forces the corner liquor store to close

   A bar called The Liquor Store, named for the painted glass window signs left over from the building's decades as an actual liquor store, had prospered on the ground floor through the 1980s. In 1990 a mosque opens nearby at 245 West Broadway, and state law barring liquor sales within 200 feet of a house of worship forces the bar's license to be revoked.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• 2 White StreetWikipedia
• The 1809 Gideon Tucker House - No. 2 White StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
• The past lives of a modest 1809 house in TribecaEphemeral New York

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