51 Walker Street
Tribeca | built 2005
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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1862
A cast-iron store at 51 Walker is built, later occupied by cloak and suit merchants Gustave Blum & Brother
In 1861-62 a five-story store with a cast-iron front was erected at No. 51, probably for George Ross, a Maiden Lane manufacturer. Gustave Blum & Brother, merchants of cloaks and suits, later occupied it. The building was demolished in 1960 and its lot became part of a parking lot.
- 1871
John B. Snook designs a marble-faced store at 53 Walker for the estate of tobacco merchant Peter Lorillard
Next door at No. 53, the architect John B. Snook designed a five-story marble-faced store and loft building for the estate of Peter Lorillard, a tobacco merchant, in 1871. Levinsky & Samuelson, merchants of cloaks and suits, later occupied it. Like No. 51, it was demolished in 1960.
- 1960
Landsmile Realty clears two loft buildings at 51-53 Walker to make a parking lot
In 1960 the Landsmile Realty Corporation demolished the two five-story store and loft buildings at Nos. 51 and 53 and created a parking lot 50 feet wide. The company's officers were the Tarnapol family, who built several parking lots in historic districts. The lot was still there when the district was designated.
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