36 Walker Street

Tribeca | built 1860

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1856

   January 30

   An earlier two-story house at 36 Walker Street is emptied at auction

   On January 30, 1856 the furnishings of a two-story house at 36 Walker Street went under the hammer, including mahogany sofas, upholstered parlor chairs, a marble-top table and bronze and ormolu clocks. This earlier house stood on the lot before the present building. The sale shows the block's residential past, just as commercial buildings were starting to appear in the neighborhood.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1859

   November

   Burglars use the unfinished 36 Walker Street to loot a tailor's silks next door

   In November 1859 burglars climbed into the unfinished building at 36 Walker Street, reached the roof, and broke through the hatchway into the shop of tailor Henry Trowbridge in the neighboring building. They left with about $1,500 worth of sewing silk, silks and velvets. Police arrested three suspects within days, one carrying a pistol Trowbridge said was his, and a woman who reported seeing the goods at a Franklin Street house was placed under a detective's care after someone tried to scare her off.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1860

   Thomas Lewis finishes a white marble Italianate loft at 36 Walker Street

   Thomas Lewis finished a five-story store and loft building at 36 Walker Street in 1860, a copy of the white-marble building he had completed next door two years earlier. It has a cast-iron storefront, arched openings with molded lintels and marble above. Lewis was reportedly pleased enough with the first design to repeat it, and the pair of facades has changed little since a photograph taken around 1941.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1866

   January 11

   Thieves carry off a case of silk from beneath the hatchway at 36 Walker Street

   Workers for the dry goods firm John Ryle & Co. lowered a case of silk, worth more than $58,000 in today's money, to the ground floor of 36 Walker Street on January 11, 1866, and thieves carried it off before it could be loaded. Detectives soon caught Caspar Parris and Abraham Greenthall. Greenthall fought the officers with help from his wife and daughter, then offered them $300 and a gold watch, and later a $400 bribe at the station house, without success.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The Marble Twins at 36 and 38 Walker Street Daytonian in Manhattan

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