315 Washington Street House
27A Harrison Street | Tribeca | built 1819
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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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- 1636
A Dutch grant gives Annetje Jans and her husband the land under 315 Washington Street
In 1636 the Dutch Director General, Van Twiller, granted the land that later held this house to Annetje Jans and her first husband, both Scandinavian-born. Their sixty-two-acre farm ran between today's Chambers and Canal Streets, with a building near the Hudson shoreline just northwest of this lot. After her husband died she married the colony's minister, Dominie Bogardus, and the property became known as the Dominie's Bowery.
“The Dutch Director General, Van Twiller, had granted it in 1636 to her and her first husband, who were both Scandinavian born.”
- 1705
Queen Anne gives the old Annetje Jans farm, including this lot, to Trinity Church
After the English took over, the Jans farm passed from Annetje's heirs to Governor Lovelace in 1671 and then to the crown, so it was called the Duke's, King's and Queen's Farm in turn. In 1705 Queen Anne granted the land by patent to Trinity Church. Part of it was leased and became the site of Harison's Brewery, which Philip Rhinelander bought in 1793.
“In 1705 Queen Anne gave it by patent to Trinity Church.”
- 1819
McComb builds 315 Washington Street in the style of his own house, replacing a stable he designed
In 1819 John McComb Jr. completed a town house at 315 Washington Street, beside the one he had built for himself at 317 two decades earlier. It replaced a stable that McComb had also designed, and he echoed the earlier house's style. The two stood on a pretty spot in the cove just south of a small point, about 100 feet from the Hudson River.
- 1969
The landmarks commission designates 315 Washington Street as one of McComb's two surviving town houses
On May 13, 1969, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 315 Washington Street, noting that all of McComb's other town houses had been demolished. A third story had been added and the ground floor changed for commerce, but the two upper floors kept their original window openings. The commission planned to move and restore the house together with eight neighbors.
“All of John McComb's town houses are gone, with the exception of these two on Washington Street.”
- 1975
The house is moved two blocks to Harrison Street and restored by 1975, and its facade falls during the move
In the 1960s the city asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission which buildings in the Washington Market renewal area deserved saving, and it named nine Federal houses. The Washington Street group, including this one, was moved two blocks to Harrison Street, with the relocation and restoration finished in 1975 by Oppenheimer, Brady & Vogelstein. Oliver Allen's Tales of Old Tribeca records that the front of what is now 27A Harrison fell down during the move and had to be replaced.
Source: tribecacitizen.com
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