212 Front Street

also 140 Beekman Street | Financial District | built 1824

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1824
A brick Georgian building goes up in 1824, the year Beekman Street is created
The building at 140 Beekman Street (212 Front Street) dates from 1824, the same year Beekman Street was laid out. It keeps its round-arched ground-floor openings, a Georgian feature of the old counting-house era that most of the district's buildings lost when shopfronts were rebuilt in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1890 it was raised to four stories and given bluestone sills and lintels.
“Built In 1824, the same year that Beekman Street was created, this brick structure with facades Jn Flemish bond Is one of the few…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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