302 Canal Street
also 61 Lispenard Street | Tribeca | built 1852
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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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- 1852
Wallpaper merchants Nathan and Joshua Brown build a store whose tenants include American Express
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Nathan and Joshua Brown, who sold wallpaper (then called paperhangings) and had earlier been in the building now numbered 320 Canal Street, had this five-story store and loft built in 1851-52 as No. 53 Canal Street. Trench & Snook designed it, and its cast-iron storefront came from Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works. Occupants included American Express and National Express; the Landmarks Preservation Commission traces American Express to Pomeroy & Company, an Albany-to-Buffalo delivery service begun in 1841. A clothing company was here in the 1890s.
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