42 North Moore Street

Tribeca | built 1891

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

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1891
Richard Berger designs a six-story Romanesque Revival loft at 42 North Moore Street for Lillian M. Stokes
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Lillian M. Stokes commissioned the building in 1891, and Richard Berger designed it to replace a masonry dwelling. The 25-foot-wide front is faced in orange brick and has a rusticated second story, windows with round arches at the top, and a corbelled cornice. Some historic metal window sash and historic doors and transoms at the base remain.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1944
A wool trader turned produce dealer leases 42 North Moore Street, which gets a butter cold-storage room in 1944
In 1910 Gabriel Nachman leased the building; he had been in the wool trade and later went into the produce business. In 1944 a refrigeration room was fitted out here for keeping butter in cold storage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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