59 Walker Street
Tribeca | built 1871
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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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- 1871
Hardware fortune builds 59 Walker Street: John D. Wolfe hires John B. Snook
John D. Wolfe, who made a fortune in hardware and then invested in real estate, had the architect John B. Snook design this five-story store and loft building in 1871, replacing a masonry structure. Wolfe served the New York Hospital as a vice president and headed the Museum of Natural History as its president, and he died the next year. Gardiner Hall Jr., founder in 1860 of a spool-cotton thread company, later owned the building.
- 1871
The cast-iron storefront at 59 Walker Street comes from the G.R. Jackson Burnet foundry
Snook gave 59 Walker a Second Empire facade, with a Corinthian cast-iron base made by the G.R. Jackson Burnet & Company foundry and a marble upper section. John Demarest was the mason. When the district was designated, the storefront kept its historic wood doors and much of its ironwork, and parts of an iron stepped vault light and some granite vault covers survived in the sidewalk. A textile company occupied the ground story.
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