58 Walker Street

Tribeca | built 1869

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  1. 1866

    Eugene Pottier's flower business works from a converted house on this lot, before building at No. 47

    Before the present building, a 25-foot-wide brick house stood at 58 Walker Street, converted for business use. In 1866 Eugene Pottier & Co., importers and makers of artificial flowers and feathers, was located here. That year Pottier laid plans for his own loft building down the block at No. 47, and Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers later bought the house and replaced it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1868

    June 12

    Seven boys, the oldest 13, are arrested for stripping the unfinished building

    The new building was up by May 1868 but stood empty when work paused, and a gang of boys moved in. Patrolman McSweeny caught all seven on the night of June 12 carrying a bag of lead pipe. The police found the pipes, faucets and roof lead stripped and walls torn down, about $1,500 in damage, and a small stove on the second floor where they had cooked meals.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1869

    Dr. Thomas Chalmers, a founder of the Academy of Medicine, builds a Second Empire loft here

    Benjamin W. Warner designed this five-story marble-fronted building, finished in 1869 for Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers (1810-1884). The Landmarks Preservation Commission says Chalmers, who came to the city from upstate and worked with New York Hospital, was among the founders of the Academy of Medicine.

    “…erected in 1869 for Dr. Thomas c. Chalmers (1810-1884)... and was among the founders of the Academy of Medicine…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1906

    March 17

    A basement fire wrecks the building, and the fire chief falls from an icy ladder

    The fire of March 17, 1906 began in the basement and shot up the elevator shaft and through the roof. The New York Times put the damage at $100,000 and called the building wrecked. Water froze on the sidewalk, and Chief Croker fell to the ground when a ladder slipped on the ice about six feet up.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1910

    January 2

    A clothing manufacturer is found dead, tied to a chair, and his partner is briefly held

    On Saturday, January 2, 1910, Moses Nathanson did not come home from the I. H. Gold & Co. office here. His partner Isaac Gold opened the door the next day and found Nathanson tied to a chair, a gas pipe above him broken. Gold was held on suspicion of murder and released two days later, once the coroner and police concluded Nathanson had taken his own life.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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