325 Church Street

Tribeca | built 1871

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

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1871
Importer William A. Barr builds a four-story store and loft on Church Street
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In 1871 William A. Barr, a local importer, had a four-story store and loft building put up on Church Street's east side, between Lispenard and Canal Streets. It was eighteen feet wide and replaced a single frame structure. E. Ketchum designed it and James Hamel built it. Over the years it held a fabric store, a tailor shop on the upper floors and, by the early 1990s, a metal workshop.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1871
The architect of 325 Church Street, E. Ketchum, appears not to have kept a New York office
The Italianate store and loft building of 1871 is the only listed work in the Tribeca East district by an architect named E. Ketchum. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's architects' appendix says he apparently had no office in New York, and offers a tentative identification: an Indianapolis architect, E.F. Ketchum, credited with an 1887 hospital in Richmond, Indiana.
“…it appears that E. Ketchum did not have an office in New York. He may be the Indianapolis architect…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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