23 Peck Slip
also 21 Peck Slip, 261 Water Street, 257 Water Street | Financial District | built 1900
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1751
Jacobus Roosevelt receives a water lot at the Peck Slip corner in 1751
The land under 21-23 Peck Slip, at the Water Street corner, began as a water lot, a parcel of land then below the waterline. In 1751 that lot was granted to Jacobus Roosevelt. In 1873 trustees of Roosevelt Hospital built a six-story store building on it.
“…erected on land that had originally been a water lot granted to Jacobus Roosevelt in 1751…”
- 1873
A cluster of gambrel-roofed buildings is cleared from the Peck Slip corner
A group of old gambrel-roofed buildings, which the landmarks commission calls picturesque, occupied the corner of Peck Slip and Water Street until 1873. They were an earlier set of buildings on the lot, replaced that year by a six-story store building put up by the trustees of Roosevelt Hospital.
- 1873
Richard Morris Hunt designs a six-story store building for Roosevelt Hospital
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Richard Morris Hunt, the Paris-trained architect later known for the base of the Statue of Liberty, designed the 1873 building for the trustees of Roosevelt Hospital. It was meant to hold first-class stores. The Victorian Gothic brick facade has contrasting stone lintels, and the date 1873 appears on the Peck Slip front. Hunt designed another Roosevelt Hospital building, at 478-482 Broadway, the same year.
“This use of polychromy was characteristic of the late 19th-century Victorian Gothic style. On the Peck Slip facade is the date, "1873…”
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