31 Leonard Street

also 29-31 Leonard Street | Tribeca | built 1881

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1881
Two prominent New Yorkers build 31 Leonard Street, and a new owner adds a seventh floor
Financier Samuel D. Babcock and dry-goods merchant Augustus D. Juilliard commissioned J. Morgan Slade to design this loft building in 1880-81. It replaced a frame structure and was one of two six-story buildings erected under the same permit, alongside No. 29. Babcock and Juilliard passed it on soon afterward, and owner J.H. Nichols hired builder William G. Slade to add a seventh story later in 1881.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
Box-strap, paper and food firms fill 31 Leonard Street, and a 1938 opening joins it to No. 29
Tenants of No. 31 included Holden & Hawley, Inc. and the Twisted Wire Box Strap Company, which kept paper and cardboard there. Later occupants were the Ideal Trading Company, which stored and packed food products, the Greenwich Seed Company and the food broker William Lichtenstein. In 1938 an interior opening was cut to connect the building with its twin at No. 29.
“Nos. 29 and 31 were joined by an interior opening in 1938.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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