Schermerhorn Row, No. 4 Fulton Street

4 Fulton Street | also 89 South Street | Financial District | built 1980

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

1. 1812

   Peter Schermerhorn completes No. 4 Fulton Street as part of a row of warehouses and counting-houses

   Schermerhorn began the row in 1811, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission dates No. 4 to 1811-12. He was a leading New York merchant who ran a ship chandlery at 243 Water Street and served as a sanitary commissioner in 1784, overseer of pumps and wells in 1788 and election inspector in 1789. In 1968 the Commission called the block the only complete row left in the city of commercial buildings from the early 1800s.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1850

   Albert Rogers opens a hotel and dining saloon at 4 Fulton Street

   Albert Rogers opened the Rogers' Hotel and Dining Saloon here in 1850 to serve seamen and other male travelers and workers. He appears in the street directories until 1864, when he passed the business to Abraham Sweet. According to the South Street Seaport Museum, the Sweet family kept it going as Sweet's, expanding into No. 6 next door, until 1992.

   Source: southstreetseaportmuseum.org

3. 1851

   The 1851 city directory shows grocers, saloons and a bootmaker along the row

   The Landmarks Preservation Commission read the 1851 directory to see who rented Schermerhorn's buildings. It found a fruit dealer, two grocers, a plumber, a bootmaker, an agricultural-implement dealer, two saloons and a dealer in willow ware and woodenware. Sweet's Restaurant, popular with ship masters and South Street merchants, had occupied part of the row since 1845.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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