55 North Moore Street

Tribeca | built 1890

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1890
The Protestant Episcopal Society has Charles C. Haight design a warehouse at 55-57 North Moore Street
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In 1890 the Protestant Episcopal Society, a church body devoted to promoting religion and learning in New York State, erected this fifty-foot-wide warehouse on the site of two masonry rowhouses. It was the first of four buildings on the block that architect Charles C. Haight designed for the society. At first it stored broom corn, broom handles and grocery goods.
“…erected in 1890 by the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning in the State of New York…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1978
The former Seeman Brothers grocery warehouse at 55-57 North Moore Street becomes apartments in 1978
The Seeman Brothers wholesale grocery business took over the warehouse early in its life, as it had the building next door, and the firm held most of the blockfront until the mid-twentieth century. In 1978 the warehouse was converted to apartments.
“In 1978 the building was converted from a warehouse to apartments…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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