Fred'k Vietor & Achelis Building

65 Leonard Street | also 249 Church Street, 6567 Leonard Street | Tribeca | built 1867

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  1. 1867

    Jarvis Slade completes a sandstone-faced loft where frame dwellings stood

    The five-story corner building at Church and Leonard streets was put up in 1866-67 for dry goods merchant Jarvis Slade, whose son J. Morgan Slade designed several buildings in the district. It blends Italianate and Second Empire details, with quoins at the corners and prominent sill courses dividing the stories. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says it stands on the site of two frame dwellings and a building put to hazardous use.

    “Displaying elements of both the Italianate and Second Empire styles, it was constructed in 1866-67 for Jarvis Slade…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1888

    November 23

    Woolen manufacturers meet here to send a lobbying committee to Washington

    By 1888 the Woolen Goods Association had its offices in the building. At a special meeting on November 23, members arrived from as far as Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and chose a committee of 25 manufacturers and commission merchants to go to Washington. Their aim was to persuade the Secretary of the Treasury to classify cloths called worsteds or diagonals as woolens for customs purposes.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1890

    January 13

    Three men snatch a case of 100 shawls from a tenant's goods

    On January 13, 1890, three men took a case of 100 shawls belonging to the tenant Fred'k Vietor & Achelis, goods that were routinely stacked on Tribeca sidewalks. A detective traced George Austin, George Wilson and Marcus Raymond to Ellen Kane's house on Allen Street, where the shawls and burglars' tools were found. All four were arrested and charged with grand larceny.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1896

    June 11

    An employee of the firm marries the widow of journalist John A. Cockerill, leaving out "obey"

    John A. Cockerill, a prominent journalist, died on assignment in Egypt on April 10, 1896. Two months later his widow Leonora married Walter Louis Lienau, who worked for Fred'k Vietor & Achelis. At police headquarters near midnight, she objected to promising to obey, so the justice of the peace repeated the ceremony without the word. The Syracuse Evening Herald reported it on June 15.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1918

    The Vietor & Achelis firm supplies the U.S. Army with brown denim for uniforms

    Fred'k Vietor & Achelis, founded in 1842 by cousins Frederick Vietor and Thomas Achelis, leased the entire Church Street building in 1900 for its cotton goods business. With the United States in World War I, it won a large Army contract to supply brown denim for uniforms. The firm delivered 3,532,500 yards in 1918 and billed the government just over $1 million.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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