48 Warren Street
Tribeca | built 1855
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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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- 1855
Hubbard Winslow builds a brownstone store and loft and rents it to a cutlery importer
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Hubbard Winslow acquired the lot at 48 Warren Street in 1853 as an investment and had a five-story brownstone-fronted building constructed around 1855. He rented it to the hardware and cutlery importer Edward Lynes, who occupied it through 1862.
- 1886
L. Straus & Sons occupies 48 Warren Street for its growing china business, 1886 to 1895
From about 1886 through 1895 the china importers L. Straus & Sons occupied 48 Warren Street, alongside their other nearby buildings at 46 Warren Street and 116 Chambers Street. In 1946 the building was altered substantially, losing much of its brownstone ornament and gaining a wrought-iron fire escape.
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- 46 Warren Street3 entries
- 120 Chambers Street50 Warren Street | 5 entries
- Swift, Seaman & Company Building122 Chambers Street | 4 entries
- 54 Warren Street2 entries
- 118 Chambers Street2 entries
- L. Straus & Sons china warehouse116 Chambers Street | 4 entries