50 Lispenard Street
Tribeca | built 1868
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- 1868
Dry-goods merchant Richard H. L. Townsend replaces an old house with a five-story store at 50 Lispenard
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Between 1866 and 1868, Richard H. L. Townsend, a dry-goods merchant who also developed property nearby, put up this five-story, 25-foot-wide store and loft building. It took the place of a two-story masonry dwelling that had been divided among several tenants. Later occupants included the merchant Leopold Bamberger and S. Weill, who sold linens, notions and hosiery.
- 1868
A Jackson Burnet cast-iron storefront and Italianate stone front mark 50 Lispenard
The ground floor has a colonnaded cast-iron storefront made by G.R. Jackson Burnet & Company, and its foundry plate still survives. The stone front above, now painted, is Italianate in style, with coursed end piers, projecting lintels and sills at the windows, and a metal cornice on brackets. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists the architect as undetermined.
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