251 Church Street
69 Leonard Street | also 251 Church Street | Tribeca | built 1857
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1854
Two wood-frame buildings and a masonry outbuilding stand here before the 1850s loft
Before the present building, the corner of Leonard and Church Streets held two wood-frame buildings, one of them a store on Leonard Street, along with a masonry outbuilding that housed what the report calls a hazardous use. All were cleared for the five-story loft that Charles Dennison, Jr., built in the mid-1850s.
“The present building replaced two wood frame buildings -- one of which was a store on Leonard Street -- and a masonry outbuilding housing a hazardous use.”
- 1857
Charles Dennison, Jr. builds an L-shaped store and loft at Church and Leonard Streets
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Between 1854 and 1857 Charles Dennison, Jr., built this five-story L-shaped building, which runs about 25 feet along both Leonard and Church Streets and went up in two sections. Its Leonard Street front is brick with brownstone lintels and a sheet-metal cornice, and the ground floor keeps cast-iron storefront framing.
“Constructed between 1854 and 1857 for Charles Dennison, Jr., it was built in two sections.”
- 1869
Merchant James Talcott and woolen jobbers Freund & Sterns occupy 69 Leonard and 251 Church Streets
In 1869 James Talcott, who dealt in domestic cotton and woolen goods, shirts and dresses on commission, was at 69 Leonard Street, while the woolen-cloth jobbers Freund & Sterns had 251 Church Street, then numbered 165. The two halves were later joined inside, and before 1888 the building held a wholesale hosiery warehouse and dry goods and novelty firms such as Todd Murphy & Co. and Partridge & Wilcox.
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