Hicks Building
73 Warren Street | Tribeca | built 1930
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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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- 1890
St. George's Church sells the Warren Street lot where a three-story building stood
The parish of St. George's Episcopal Church had long owned a 25-foot lot at 73 Warren Street. On November 26, 1890, its trustees sold the lot for $32,500 to Lewis Coon, with the title put in the name of his wife Amalie. Three days later architect G. A. Schellinger submitted plans for a brick store that would take the place of the old three-story building there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1891
G. A. Schellinger mixes Romanesque Revival, Renaissance and Queen Anne details in a six-story store
Schellinger's six-story building has a cast iron storefront with three arched openings and rough granite blocks suggesting Romanesque Revival. Above, terra cotta panels in Renaissance Revival style, Corinthian terra cotta capitals and a quilt of Queen Anne tiles at the fifth floor appear against Roman brick. The cornice was lost long ago and replaced by a parapet.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1893
Canfield Rubber offers European trips for guessing dress shield sales at the Chicago fair
Ratcliffe Hicks bought 73 Warren Street in 1892, partly as a home for the Canfield Rubber Company's New York office, and promoted its Seamless Dress Shield at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Women who best guessed how many shields were sold in 1893 could win European tours or $500, $300 and $200 in gold. Guesses were to be mailed to 73 Warren Street, and the exhibit included wax figures of Jared Canfield and a working girl.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1899
A veterinary supplier in the ground-floor store sells a bit meant to stop runaway horses
Dr. P. Harvey Flynn ran a veterinary supply store in the building serving Manhattan's horse population. In 1899 he invented the My Little Giant Controller, a bit he guaranteed would stop any skittish horse. The New York Times of March 25 quoted his description that the pain from a steady pull was too great for a horse to keep running. Flynn insisted it was humane.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1966
The 1966 newspaper strike has a combined headquarters here for two struck papers
During the 1966 Newspaper Guild of New York strike, a strike bulletin announced on June 21 that The Journal-American and The World-Telegram had merged their strike headquarters at 73 Warren Street. The building was one of Tribeca's earliest loft buildings converted to residential space, and by 1977 it held one artists' living-work quarters per floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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- The 1891 Hicks Building - 73 Warren StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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