Schermerhorn Row, No. 6 Fulton Street

6 Fulton Street | also 89 South Street | Financial District | built 1980

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

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1812
No. 6 Fulton Street keeps the steep roof of an early Schermerhorn counting-house
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Built in 1811-12 for Peter Schermerhorn, No. 6 still has its original high-pitched roof. The gabled dormer on top is a later addition, since the buildings first had only hatchways leading to the roof. The outside stairways that once reached the second-floor counting rooms came off in the 1840s, and early fire rules had the brick party walls rise above the rooflines.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1878
Hotel rooms are added on the fourth floor of 6 Fulton Street
The business that began as Rogers' hotel at No. 4 later spread into No. 6. According to the South Street Seaport Museum, a suite of fourth-floor rooms at No. 6 dates from 1878, when the hotel last had a full renovation, and those rooms were bigger than any others in a hotel on the block.
Source: southstreetseaportmuseum.org
1968
October 29
The city landmarks Schermerhorn Row, and a developer sues to stop it
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the row's buildings, No. 6 among them, on October 29, 1968. The developer Atlas-McGrath, a partnership of Sol Atlas and John G. McGrath, had been buying buildings on the block to replace them with an office tower, and sued in March 1969 to overturn the designation. It later agreed to hand the buildings to the South Street Seaport Museum in a trade for the sites' air rights, and it dropped the suit.
Source: Wikipedia

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