Walton House site, Franklin Square

324 Pearl Street | Financial District | built 1882

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1752
Merchant William Walton builds a mansion on Queen Street, later 326 Pearl Street
Having lived at Hanover Square, William Walton built a mansion in 1752 on a lot he had inherited near the shipyards. It stood in Franklin Square at what became 326 Pearl Street; in 1752 Pearl was still called Queen Street. This was an earlier building on this lot: the house lasted until 1881, a worn relic of the colonial period, before warehouses replaced it.
“In the year 1752 he erected the mansion which bore his name, on one of the lots which he had inherited from his father near the shipyards.”
Source: Wikipedia
1882
James Callery's new building holds a store below and a factory above; a printing house is here by 1888
The brick warehouse at 324-328 Pearl Street was built in 1881-82 to designs by William Kuhler, replacing the old Walton mansion. Its owner, James Callery, had a store on the first floor and a factory above. By 1888 a printing house occupied the building. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes the cast-iron storefront columns and a Romanesque-inspired corbeled brick cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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