237 Front Street
Financial District | built 1974
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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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- 1974
Con Edison builds a brick substation scaled to the 1806-07 building at 45 Peck Slip
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Beginning in 1974, Consolidated Edison replaced the older buildings on this stretch of Front Street with an electrical substation designed by the firm of Edward L. Barnes. It is built of brick with concrete trim, and its height matches the cornice line of 45 Peck Slip, which dates to 1806-07. The South Street Seaport Museum's Restoration and Development Committee approved the design.
“The buildings that occupied this site were demolished for the Consolidated Edison Substation, begun in 1974. The substation was designed by the architectural firm of Edward L. Barnes…”
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