71 Franklin Street

also 73 Franklin Street | Tribeca | built 1861

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1861

    James Thompson's marble-faced store at 71-73 Franklin Street carries the Cornell foundry's mark

    James Thompson had two five-story buildings put up side by side in 1859-61, replacing two smaller structures, and gave them one continuous facade about 54 feet wide and 76 feet deep, faced in marble above the ground floor. The second-story windows are round-arched, with keystones. The 1992 landmarks report found the cast-iron storefront still framed by fluted columns and piers, two of them inscribed at the base with the name of the iron works of J.B. & W.W. Cornell, and the sidewalk vault lights marked L.R. Case, 175 Centre St.

    “Inscribed foundry marks reading "J.B. & W.W. Cornell & Co., Iron Works" appear on the bases of the center and eastern piers.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1869

    In 1869 a boot and wagon-spring dealer shares 71-73 Franklin Street with kid-glove importers

    In 1869 two firms occupied the building. Henry C. Norton & Co. sold wagon springs, belting, boots and shoes, and Lebrun & Thompson imported kid gloves, French prints, flannels, silk ties and scarves. The marble-fronted loft was then about a decade old.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1900

    The Warner Bros. corset company owns 71-73 Franklin Street around 1900

    Around 1900 the Warner Bros. corset company owned the building. By the late 1920s Sherman & Sons, which dealt in white goods, wash goods, bedspreads and linens as a converter and importer, occupied the first and second stories. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed it around 1992, the upper floors were residential and the ground floor was vacant.

    “…turn of the century, the building was owned by the Warner Bros. corset company.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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