295 Church Street

Tribeca | built 1868

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The lot about 1940
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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

    Isaac F. Duckworth designs a five-story sandstone loft at 201 Church Street, later renumbered 295

    William G. Hackstaff, Jr. built it in 1867-68 on the site of a two-story frame building. Duckworth was the architect of several standout buildings in Tribeca and SoHo. This one has a cast-iron storefront and an Italianate sandstone upper facade with arched windows, stringcourses and molded keystones. It is about 21.5 feet wide.

    “Designed by Isaac F. Duckworth, an architect who designed several outstanding buildings in the Tribeca and SoHo areas, it was erected as No. 201 Church Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1891

    January

    William Clark incorporates his own thread company and opens a sales room at 295 Church Street

    Clark had managed the Clark Thread Company of Newark for more than 25 years. In January 1891 he formed the William Clark Company and leased the store here as a sales room. The firm's thread was marked with the letters N-E-W. His son Robert ran the Church Street office while his son William Jr. managed the mills at Westerly, Rhode Island.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1897

    The Clark family sues William Clark over a thread label that resembled the family firm's

    William and his brother George had been sent from Scotland in 1866 to expand the family thread business, later Clark Thread. William later split off to start his own firm. In 1897 the other Clarks sued, complaining that his company used the Clark's name in the same lettering with an identical logo, and that his N-E-W was too like their O-N-T, for Our New Thread.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1902

    February 3

    Smoke from a cellar fire overcomes six firemen at 295 Church Street

    Policeman Boll noticed smoke coming from the cellar on the night of February 3, 1902. When firemen forced the door the smoke overwhelmed them so fast that all retreated to the street, and six were overcome, so a second alarm was called. Damage was estimated at more than $600,000 in today's money. Meyer Brothers then occupied the store and basement.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1905

    January 25

    A restaurant fire on Walker Street spreads into the Church Street loft district during a blizzard

    At 4:00 a.m. during a blizzard, a fire broke out in the kitchen of Mrs. Grace's restaurant at 35 Walker Street. Driven by high winds, it spread to Church Street and was said to threaten the whole wholesale dry goods district. No. 297 was heavily damaged, and at 295 the International Suspender Company suffered significant losses.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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