28 Commerce Street
West Village | built 1821
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1859
Mason Garret Spear dies at No. 28, whose rear building holds a soda water factory
Garret Spear, a mason from New Jersey, moved into No. 28 after the 1852 sale and died there at 56 on November 27, 1859; the service took place in the parlor on the following night. At his death he was leasing the little building behind the house to the brothers Charles and Gilliam Seely, who ran a soda water factory under the address 28 1/2 Commerce Street. After Spear's death the house itself was run as a rooming house.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 28 Commerce StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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