214 Front Street

also 216 Front Street | Financial District | built 1802

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1802
Merchant William Shotwell has a building here by 1802
A building stood at 214 Front Street by 1802, put up for William Shotwell, a merchant. Its height then is unknown and it may have been lower than today, perhaps with a peaked roof. The cast-iron shopfront was added in the mid-19th century, and a cartouche on the southernmost column still carries the street number.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1962
A pair of early 19th-century buildings at 216-218 Front Street is demolished
Two three-story buildings from the first quarter of the 19th century once stood on the lot beside 214 Front Street. A 1936 photograph shows triple-arched ground floors, and the outlines of their pitched roofs can still be seen on the neighboring sidewalls. They were demolished in 1962, leaving an empty lot. These earlier buildings stood on the same site, and the LPC counted the pair among the finest in the district.
“…originally the site of a pair of three-story buildings dating from the first quarter of the 19th century. Demolished In 1962…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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