277 Church Street
Tribeca | built 1869
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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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- 1869
D. & J. Jardine design a four-story Italianate store and loft for Morris Poznanski
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In 1869 Morris Poznanski had a four-story store and loft building erected here, about 25 feet wide and 75 feet deep. Samuel Cochran built it to a design by D. & J. Jardine, the architectural firm that designed a similar facade for 84 Franklin Street the same year. The building is Italianate, with masonry walls and cast-iron elements.
“It was constructed in 1869 for Morris Poznanski and was built by Samuel Cochran according to the design of D. & J. Jardine…”
- 1940
Artists' studios fill the upper floors by the 1940s, and restaurants take the ground floor in the 1950s
The Landmarks Preservation Commission found that artists' studios occupied the upper stories as early as the 1940s, and that restaurants have held the ground floor since the 1950s. In the late 1860s the building had a different clientele: H. L. Harburger Company, dealers in cloaks and suits, kept offices in it. The sandstone front is deeply rusticated, and an elaborate sheet-metal cornice crowns it.
- 2022
Shigure Sake Bar closes after 15 years in the ground-floor space
Shigure Sake Bar, which had occupied the ground-floor space for 15 years, closed in 2022. Tribeca Citizen reported in February 2025 that workers were building a new restaurant there, after scrubbing away the old room's brass bar and exposed brick. The bar B Flat, below it, was the last business to get a liquor license for the address, in 2016.
Source: tribecacitizen.com
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