123 Madison Street
40 Market Street | also 123 Madison Street, 123B Madison Street | Two Bridges | built 1900
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1894
Architect F. Ienth designs a corner Queen Anne and neo-Grec building for Margaret Reilly
Margaret Reilly bought the old three-story store and tenement on this corner in July 1891 and two years later hired architect F. Ienth to replace it for $22,000. Completed in 1894, the new building had two ground-floor stores, red brick walls with brownstone trim, a columned portico with iron cresting and a pressed metal cornice with an embossed shell. Reilly lived across the street at No. 124.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1899
A teenage resident and her river-pilot sweetheart wed after a courtroom lesson on bad marriages
Nineteen-year-old Mary Hughes of 123 Madison Street went to Jefferson Market Courthouse with river pilot Samuel J. McGill to marry before he sailed that night. Magistrate Deuel first had the couple sit and watch the court's cases, including a wife's complaint against an abusive husband. After questioning Mary at length, he married them.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1900
A Christian mission wagon is stoned outside the building and a young missionary is run over
In March 1900 evangelist Wilson H. Dunlop leased the vacant Madison Street storefront as a mission for Jews, and his decorated wagon was pelted with vegetables on opening day. A second visit on March 11 ended with a hostile crowd throwing stones. Mabel Russell, 19, was knocked from the wagon and run over, and a doctor doubted she would recover. Dunlop never opened the mission.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1901
A sewing-machine shop's teenage messenger vanishes and says he woke in a Mount Vernon cemetery
Sixteen-year-old Louis Goldearr left the sewing machine store of A. Zeleza on January 9, 1901, with $10 to buy supplies and did not return. Two days later he came back muddy and exhausted, saying a man had choked and robbed him and that he woke beside a gravestone in Mount Vernon, 22 miles away. He had walked back, and his employer said he believed the story.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1917
The Downtown Tammany Club occupies the Madison Street storefront
By 1917 the Madison Street storefront held the Downtown Tammany Club, a local political club. Nearly six decades later, the same space housed the office of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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- The 1894 123 Madison StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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