70 Laight Street

Tribeca | built 1886

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1886
James Pyle, the Pearline soap maker, puts up a five-story rental warehouse at 70-72 Laight Street
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Soap manufacturer James Pyle hired the architect Thomas R. Jackson in 1886 to design this red brick building, the fourth of five Jackson designed for him on the block. Pyle apparently meant it as rental property rather than for his own use. In 1896 the ground floor held general storage, floors two through four held coffee, and the fifth floor held bicycles.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Fairchild Brothers & Foster, makers of digestive ferments, take over 70-72 Laight Street
Around 1900 the pharmaceutical firm Fairchild Brothers & Foster moved into the building, which stood beside its larger warehouse at 74-76 Laight Street. A later tenant was Stanley's Unique Gold Stamping Corporation. Before the 1886 building went up, two masonry dwellings had occupied the lot.
“Around the turn of the century the building was taken over by Fairchild Brothers & Foster, the pharmaceutical firm that also occupied the adjacent building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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