Sarah R. Lambert House

29 Harrison Street | Tribeca | built 1827

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1765

   A brewery occupies the Trinity Church leasehold where 29 Harrison Street later stands

   Trinity Church received the old Annetje Jans farm by royal patent in 1705 and, in 1765, leased the portion that includes this site for ninety-nine years. The leasehold became the site of Harrison's Brewery, which the landmark report quotes as the most commodious and complete in America. Philip Rhinelander bought the complex in 1793, and it was known as Rhinelander's afterward, long before any houses went up here.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1827

   Sarah R. Lambert has 29 Harrison Street built as a Federal house

   In 1827, the year the executors of William Rhinelander's estate sold the property, Sarah R. Lambert had the house at 29 Harrison Street built. The landmark report notes that she already held the property, so this was not a speculator's house. It is one of three matching houses of that year at Nos. 29, 31 and 33.

   “29 Harrison Street was built In 1827 for a Sarah R. Lambert.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1969

   May 13

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Sarah R. Lambert House

   On May 13, 1969, the Commission designated 29 Harrison Street a landmark, following a hearing in December 1966. It called the house a fine early Federal building of refined proportion, built of Flemish bond brick with its pitched roof and dormers intact. The ground floor had lost its original details when the house was converted to warehouse use.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

4. 1975

   Critic Paul Goldberger pans the restored Federal houses of Harrison Street

   In the mid-1970s the nine Federal houses the Commission chose to save were moved or restored, with architects replicating the lost facades and sandblasting the new brick to simulate aging. Paul Goldberger wrote that facades at Disneyland look more real. The AIA Guide's authors added that the houses were perhaps too lovingly restored, with the patina of time totally erased.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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