20 Harrison Street
Tribeca | built 1892
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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.
- 1860
Archibald Hopkins buys a Federal-era house on the lot, which his family keeps for 88 years
A Federal-era dwelling stood on this lot at 20 Harrison Street when Archibald Hopkins acquired it in 1860. In 1884 the owner, Eliza B. Hopkins, had a storefront fitted into the house. The property stayed with the Hopkins family until 1948, and the house itself was swept away in a complete rebuilding eight years after the storefront went in.
“The original house and lot were acquired by Archibald Hopkins in 1860. The property remained in the Hopkins family until 1948.”
- 1892
P. Henry Gilvarry rebuilds 20 Harrison as a Renaissance Revival loft for the Hopkins heirs
In 1892 the old house was completely rebuilt as a store-and-loft building to designs by P. Henry Gilvarry, with Hugh Getty as builder, for the heirs of Eliza Hopkins. The narrow front, about eighteen feet wide, has cast-iron spandrels, a swag frieze and a bracketed cornice. It was four stories and has since gained a fifth.
“In 1892, it was completely rebuilt to the designs of architect P . Henry Gilvarry for Hopkins' heirs.”
- 1920
Breakstone & Levine, later Breakstone Brothers, lease 20 Harrison for the dairy trade
From 1920 through the mid-1930s the dairy merchants Breakstone & Levine, who later traded as Breakstone Brothers, were the tenants. Other dairy merchants followed in the years after, keeping the address in the dairy trade. The building has since been converted to residential use.
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