58 Stone Street

also 93 Pearl Street | Financial District | built 1837

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.

1812
Publisher Evert D. Duyckinck owns an earlier commercial building on this lot
A city directory of 1812 shows No. 91 Pearl Street as a multiple dwelling, with a mariner, a bootmaker and two others living there. No. 93 had already become a business address, occupied by the firm of Hoit & Jarvis. For about a decade it belonged to Evert D. Duyckinck, a prominent publisher and bookseller. These were earlier buildings on the site.
“No. 93 had already been converted for commercial use, being occupied by the firm of Hoit & Jarvis, and for about a decade was owned by Evert D. Duyckinck…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1837
A five-story warehouse covers all four lots; brewer George Ehret later owns it
Dr. Henry James, a druggist, held all four parcels here before the 1835 fire. By 1837 one store and loft building covered the whole site, first used by drygoods dealers and German and Swiss importers. Later owners included Adrian B. Westervelt, an iron importer and steamship builder, and the brewer George Ehret, who held more New York real estate than anyone except the Astor estate. In the twentieth century it housed a distillery, the Hamilton Press and a restaurant.
“By 1837 a single store and loft building had been erected to cover the entire site…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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