34 Peck Slip

also 235 Front Street, 36 Peck Slip | Financial District | built 1900

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

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1828
Flour merchants Wood & Birdsall are first to occupy a new corner building on city land
In 1828-29 a four-story brick building went up at the corner of Front Street and Peck Slip, numbered 235 Front Street and also 34 Peck Slip. It stood on land belonging to the city's municipal corporation, and its first occupants were the flour merchants Wood & Birdsall. A matching building, 233 Front Street, rose next door at the same time on one of the last water lots the city held onto.
“Like No. 233, this building was erected in 1828-29 on land owned by the Corporation of the City of New York. It was first occupied by the flour merchants, Wood & Birdsall.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
Architects Neville & Bagge add a fifth story and cast-iron trim in 1892
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In 1892 the architects Neville & Bagge altered the building's facade. They raised it from four stories to five and lowered its peaked roof, and a bracketed sheet-metal cornice now caps the top. The cast-iron columns at the Peck Slip entrance and the sheet-metal window lintels date from this remodeling, while an arched brick doorway from 1828-29, now filled in, survives on the same side.
“The cast-iron features undoubtedly date from 1892 when the facade was altered according to the plans of the architects, Neville & Bagge.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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