42 Walker Street

Tribeca | built 1855

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

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1855
Charles A. Baudouine builds a five-story brick store at 42 Walker Street
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Charles A. Baudouine erected this five-story, 25-foot-wide building in 1854-55, giving it a brick facade. It took the place of an existing masonry building. In keeping with the district, its occupants over the years included the clothing merchants S.C. Miltenthal & Company and A.H. Weill, who sold hosiery and knit goods.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
A cast-iron Second Empire front by C. Vreeland Iron Works replaces the brick facade of 42 Walker
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In 1879-80 Baudouine hired Charles M. Youngs to give the building its present cast-iron facade, which was cast by the C. Vreeland Iron Works and put up by the builders Sinclair & Wills. It mixes Second Empire and neo-Grec detail, with stacked engaged columns and a bracketed metal cornice. A "C. VREELAND" foundry plate survives at street level.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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