46 Lispenard Street

also 48 Lispenard Street | Tribeca | built 1868

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  1. 1868

    Isaac Duckworth's cast-iron loft at 46-48 Lispenard Street has a facade identical to one on Church Street

    Duckworth designed this five-story Second Empire loft for Pierre Keff Francis, with a cast-iron front made by the Architectural Iron Works foundry. It went up in 1866-68 on the site of two three-story masonry buildings and is 47 feet wide. The landmarks commission notes that its facade is identical to the one at 315-317 Church Street.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1869

    June 8

    A fast-talking con man buys $1,144 of dry goods at 46-48 Lispenard Street and sells them off at auction

    Isaac Marks walked into the dry-goods firm Bradley, Keefer, Welty & Co. on June 8, 1869, claiming to represent a company on Chambers Street and to be opening a branch store in Paterson, New Jersey. He left with goods worth $1,144 on 60 days' credit, then sold everything at auction for far less. Edson Bradley had him arrested on June 25.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1875

    February

    A linen dealer's wife sues him over a slammed piano lid and a forgotten bird cage

    In February 1875 Charlotte Thompson sued her husband Lucas Thompson, whose linen firm was based in the building at 46-48 Lispenard Street, for legal separation. She accused him of slamming the piano cover on her fingers when she kept playing, and of lounging by a window instead of fetching her bird cage in from the porch. The judge was unmoved, saying that spouses agree to put up with each other's failings.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1876

    August

    Two dry-goods partners at 46 Lispenard Street are arrested over a $50,000 fraud

    Ferdinand Ehrlich and Salomon Steinfeld, who ran the fancy dry-goods firm Ehrlich & Steinfeld here, were arrested in August 1876 on a creditor's sworn claim that they were about to leave the state. An importer had delivered five shipments in July worth $1,311.25, only to find their offices empty. A newspaper put the fraud at around $50,000, and the Times said the failure had come none too soon for the trade.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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