62 Reade Street

also 62A Reade Street, 64 Reade Street | Tribeca | built 1860

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  1. 1856

    Dry goods merchants Curtis and Giles develop 64 Reade Street on land leased from a Utica church

    Dry goods merchants Benjamin Curtis and William G. Giles developed 64 Reade Street in 1856-57 as a rental property. The land belonged to Trinity Church of Utica, New York, and they leased it. Charles Asaph Lord, a member of a prominent family of dry goods merchants, occupied the building in the 1860s and early 1870s. In the 1920s it held the main offices of the Empire Shoe Co. and the Independent Towel Co.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1860

    Isaac Duckworth designs 62 Reade Street for dry goods wholesaler Richard Townsend

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    Richard H.L. Townsend, a dry goods wholesaler, had 62 Reade Street built in 1860. A party wall agreement with the owner of No. 64 names Isaac F. Duckworth as the designer. Duckworth specialized in commercial buildings and also designed a cast-iron store at 97-101 Reade Street. The marble front, with two-story arches, closely resembles the neighboring 58-60 Reade Street, and its cast-iron storefront piers survive.

    “…constructed in 1860 for dry goods wholesaler Richard H.L. Townsend. A party wall agreement with the owners of the adjoining building at 64 Reade Street…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1889

    Oilcloth manufacturers link 62 Reade Street to 58-60 next door

    Douglass Manufacturing Co. was the occupant of 62 Reade Street in the 1870s. In 1889 the oilcloth makers Alden, Sampson & Sons, who rented space next door at 58-60, had the two buildings joined inside. By the 1920s the two were leased separately again, and tenants at 62 included the Fetzer Press and the drill makers E.W. McKeen and Union Twist Drill Co., followed later by shoe-supply firms.

    “In 1889 Alden, Sampson & Sons, manufacturers of oilcloths, which leased space in the adjoining building at 58-60 Reade Street, had the two buildings joined…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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