277 Water Street

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

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1870
Three two-story frame buildings occupy the site until at least 1870
Before the present building, three small frame buildings, each two stories high, stood on this lot. They survived at least until 1870. Frame construction lingered on the filled land of Water Street; the Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that wood buildings were sometimes allowed there because the landfill was believed unable to carry the weight of brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1881
Giblin & Lyons, the contracting firm of Jeremiah C. Lyons, builds a five-story brick building
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The building at 277 Water Street went up in 1881 from Giblin & Lyons, the contracting firm of Jeremiah C. Lyons, whom the Landmarks Preservation Commission describes as a prominent New York builder and developer. It has a cast-iron storefront and four upper stories of brick with molded stone lintels. Its design resembles that of 271 Water Street, built six years earlier by Marc Eidlitz.
“The present building was erected in 1881 by Giblin and Lyons, the contracting firm of Jeremiah C. Lyons, who was a prominent New York City builder and developer.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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