68 Reade Street

also 66 Reade Street | Tribeca | built 1857

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  1. 1856

    Dry goods partner Robert McCurdy builds 66-68 Reade Street as an investment

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    Robert H. McCurdy, a partner in the wholesalers McCurdy, Aldrich & Spencer, built 66-68 Reade Street in 1856-57 as a speculative investment. The firm represented major American mills. In 1856 McCurdy sold the adjoining lot, 70-72 Reade Street, to the merchant William Bliss, and the two stores went up at the same time. Two frame dwellings stood here before.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1857

    Cast-iron storefront of 66-68 Reade Street comes from Badger's Architectural Iron Works

    The ground floor of 66-68 Reade Street keeps its original fluted cast-iron columns, and a foundry mark at the building line reads D.D. Badger & Co., 42 Duane Street, showing that Badger's Architectural Iron Works made the iron. The building appears in that firm's 1865 catalog. The architect is believed to be Samuel A. Warner, who designed large dry goods stores for H.B. Claflin & Co. and others.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1890

    B.F. Goodrich of Akron keeps offices at 66-68 Reade Street for decades

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    From the 1890s through the 1940s the building was owned by the rubber goods maker B.F. Goodrich & Co. of Akron, Ohio, which kept offices there. Other rubber-trade tenants followed, among them the J.W. Buckley Rubber Co. and the Boston Belting & Rubber Co., along with wholesale shoe merchants. Earlier, in the 1870s, it had been leased to hardware and cutlery dealers.

    “…contained offices of B.F. Goodrich & Co. of Akron, Ohio, makers of rubber goods.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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