53 Murray Street

Tribeca | built 1856

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1842
Isaac J. Greenwood buys the Murray Street lot and lives in a house there until 1855
In 1842 Isaac J. Greenwood acquired the lot at 53 Murray Street from Trinity Church and lived in a house on it until about 1855. His house was an earlier building on the site, and it may have been the core of the later warehouse. As the neighborhood turned commercial, he decided to redevelop the property.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1855
The Greenwood family turns 53 Murray Street into a dry goods warehouse it owns until 1949
Around 1855-56 Greenwood rebuilt the property as a five-story Italianate store and loft building and rented it to dry goods jobbers, among them Cunningham, Frost & Throckmortons. His family kept the building as an investment until 1949. By the mid-twentieth century its ornament and storefront had been stripped away, and the facade is now covered in tinted cement stucco.
“…remained as an investment for the Greenwood family until 1949.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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