Robert and Anne Dickey House

67 Greenwich Street | also 42 Trinity Place | Financial District | built 1810

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  1. 1810

    Importer Robert Dickey builds a Federal mansion on newly made Greenwich Street

    Robert Dickey, a merchant who imported tea, spices, coffee and rice, paid $11,017 for three lots in 1809 and had two houses under construction by November. By 1810 he and his wife Anne were living in the larger one, then numbered 71 and renumbered 67 in 1822. Stables, a coach house and a storehouse stood behind on Lumber Street, and Dickey lived here until 1820, when a lost ship forced him to sell.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1856

    July

    The American Industrial Association's office draws English laborers arriving from the Crimea

    By the 1850s the old mansion housed working-class boarders and the offices of the American Industrial Association, which sought work for farmers and laborers. In July 1856 the first of 3,800 English laborers who had worked as excavators in the Crimea arrived on the ship Orient and crowded its office. The association's secretary promised that work would be found for all who came to settle peacefully.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1872

    Detlef Lienau remodels the Dickey house for the Schermerhorn family

    In about 1872 Edmond H. Schermerhorn commissioned the architect Detlef Lienau to remodel the house. Lienau removed the pitched roof, which probably had dormers, and raised the fourth floor to a full story. He replaced the splayed lintels with plain stone ones and added a pedimented hood over the door, at a cost of $10,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1940

    Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel clearing in 1940 leaves the Dickey house as Greenwich Street's last Federal survivor

    In 1940 the city began preparing for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, and dozens of similar Federal houses, many with bowed rear facades, were demolished. One by one they fell until only No. 67 remained. Only seven houses south of Chambers Street date from before 1810, and this is one of them. Brothers-in-law Irving Schacter and Eli Goldhagen bought it in 1960, and the family kept it for decades.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2019

    The Dickey house's shell is built into the base of a 42-story residential tower

    By 2019 the old mansion had been gutted, and its exterior walls were being incorporated into the base of 77 Greenwich Street, a 42-story residential tower rising next door. A school was planned for the lower floors. Over the 20th century the house had held a luncheonette, a cigar shop, a messenger service and a barber shop.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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