Doubleday & Beak Building

49 Murray Street | Tribeca | built 1858

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  1. 1813

    August 11

    Joseph Stringham advertises passage on a Caribbean-bound vessel from his leased house at 49 Murray Street

    In 1813 Joseph Stringham lived and worked at 49 Murray Street, a Federal-style house leased from Trinity Church. On August 11 he advertised a fast-sailing vessel that would soon be dispatched as a cartel to the Leeward Caribbean Islands, with passengers to apply at his address. This was an earlier house on the site, replaced by the present loft building in the late 1850s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1858

    Hubert Van Wagenen Jr. replaces the family house with a brownstone loft building leased to three firms

    Van Wagenen bought the lot from Trinity Church in 1844 and lived on it until about 1855, then moved to West 23rd Street. The five-story brownstone-fronted loft building that followed, dated about 1858, went to three tenants: the china importers Jacob Conklin & Sons, the saddlery hardware dealers A. D. Dickenson & Co., and Solomon Wolff, an importer of hardware and cutlery. It stayed in the Van Wagenen family until 1944.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1892

    December 1

    A saddlery firm employee's teenage son plots a silverware burglary in Red Bank, New Jersey

    The New York Times reported on December 1, 1892 that 17-year-old Dreher, whose father worked in the office of the saddlery hardware company at 49 Murray Street, had come up with a plan to rob a farmhouse in Red Bank. Dismissed from a job at Mrs. Charles Purdy's home, he returned pleading hunger and, at night, let in two accomplices, who took $500 worth of silverware. Police arrested Charles Adams when he collected the express parcel at 94 Broadway, and Dreher confessed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1900

    October 29

    An explosion at the Tarrant drug house rattles workers from 49 Murray Street, one of whom reports a vanished wife

    At about noon on October 29, 1900, a huge explosion at Tarrant & Co. at Washington and Warren streets wrecked some twenty buildings. Henrietta Gorman, 18, who worked in the paper box factory at no. 49, was treated at Hudson Street Hospital for hysteria. Edward Bradley, a printer's employee there, told police his wife had been buried in the wreckage, but the Times next day reported he was unmarried and had called it a joke.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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