293 Church Street

Tribeca | built 1868

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1868

    Walter Jones builds a Second Empire loft at 199 Church Street, now 293, with its address on the facade

    Built in 1867-68 for Walter Jones, the five-story building replaced two frame structures. It has a cast-iron base, a stone upper section and a four-story central pavilion with engaged Corinthian columns. The fifth story still shows the original address, 199, and the year 1867 appears on the brackets beside the cornice.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1871

    January 26

    A fire at Herman Gershel's mantilla shop brings an arson inquiry that touches his brother

    Fire broke out in the store early on January 26, 1871, causing $20,000 in damage. The New York Herald reported that bookkeeper Adolph Gershel, brother of the owner Herman, had been arrested on suspicion of arson to collect $10,000 in insurance. Adolph wrote to the paper that he had only been summoned to the Fire Marshal's office for questioning and was neither arrested nor charged.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1877

    August 1

    A clothier fires a National Guard captain who was called up for the Great Railroad Strike

    A cutter at A. & J. Levy, clothiers at 199 Church Street (now 293), served as a captain in the Eleventh Regiment. When the National Guard was sent to deal with the Great Railroad Strike in the summer of 1877, he was dismissed from his job while away. The Evening Telegram of August 1 shamed the firm for it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1901

    December 8

    Importer Donald W. MacLeod dies after months in which relatives said his wife kept them from seeing him

    MacLeod founded D. W. MacLeod & Co., importers of woolens and linens, in 1877 and married Harriet Bush in 1889, when he was 52 and she was 18. In 1901 his brother Richard went to court, saying she kept him a prisoner at home, but a judge dismissed the writ. He died on December 8, and the Tribune reported that most of an estate valued above $500,000 went to her, and the family contested the will in 1906.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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