331 Greenwich Street

Tribeca | built 1808

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

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1808
Peter Dobb owns a small house on the lot by 1808
City tax records list a two-and-a-half-story dwelling at this spot on Greenwich Street as early as 1808, with Peter Dobb as owner. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes it as a Federal-era house and dates the building to about 1808.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1874
Builders raise the old house a story and give it a cast-iron storefront
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In 1874 owner R.J. Clark hired the building firm Thompson & Mickens to remove the house's peaked roof and add a fourth story, done in a way that matched the original. The cast-iron storefront with Corinthian pilasters probably dates from the same work. The building has had shops on the ground floor and apartments above since the late nineteenth century.
“…the building firm of Thompson & Mickens removed the peaked roof and added the fourth story…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A fire in 1940 forces new windows, doors and roof
A building notice filed in 1940 records that the roof, doors and windows of 331 Greenwich Street were replaced after a fire. The owner was the Estate of Catherine Lawrence, and Charles Loudon Calhoun did the work. The district report suggests the six-over-six wood windows seen today date from this repair.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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