46 Warren Street
Tribeca | built 1855
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- 1855
Felix Ingoldsby builds a brownstone-fronted warehouse for his hardware and cutlery import firm
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Felix Ingoldsby bought a house at 46 Warren Street in 1844 and lived there until about 1853. By 1855 he had built a five-story brownstone-fronted store and loft building on the lot, and he moved his hardware and cutlery import firm, Ingoldsby, Halsted & Co., in from Maiden Lane. The firm stayed until about 1870, and Ingoldsby sold the building in 1874. It was the first of many hardware and cutlery businesses to settle in the area.
- 1874
Adelaide Bell, wife of cotton merchant and hospital reformer Isaac Bell, buys 46 Warren Street
In 1874 the building passed from Ingoldsby to Adelaide M. Bell, whose husband Isaac Bell (1814-1897) had made a fortune as a cotton merchant. Isaac Bell was the first commissioner appointed under an 1859 law creating New York County's Board of Charities and Correction and served as its president for fourteen years. He was a major force behind the creation of Bellevue Hospital and its medical college, and after the Civil War he organized the Old Dominion Steamship Company. The Bells held the building as an investment until selling it in 1902.
“In 1874, Ingoldsby sold the building to Adelaide M. Bell, wife of the noted cotton merchant and philanthropist, Isaac Bell (1814-1897)…”
- 1885
L. Straus & Sons, the china importers behind Macy's, occupies 46 Warren Street from about 1885
From about 1885 until about 1925 the building was home to L. Straus & Sons, the china importing and wholesale firm that grew out of the store at 116 Chambers Street. In 1920 Lee Kohns bought the building; he was a grandson of Lazarus Straus and held the presidency of the New York Board of Trade. The firm stayed in the chinaware trade into the mid-1920s.
“L. Straus & Sons continued in the chinaware trade into the mid-1920s, remaining in its Tribeca location.”
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