57 Beach Street
also 399 Greenwich Street | Tribeca | built 1915
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1874
Liquor merchant James Mooney builds a five-story tenement at 57 Beach Street
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James Mooney, a liquor merchant, bought this lot in 1874, where a masonry house facing Greenwich Street had stood since the early 1800s. On the rear part of the lot he built a five-story Italianate tenement with a shop at street level, designed by William Jose and trimmed with cast-iron window heads. By 1880 Mooney was living in a small house at 55 1/2 Beach Street, just to the east.
“The lot was acquired in 1874 by James Mooney, a liquor merchant, who developed this portion of the site…”
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