74 Reade Street
Tribeca | built 1915
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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.
- 1859
Brooklyn restaurateur George Bradshaw sublets church land for 74-76 Reade Street
Nos. 74, 76 and 78 Reade Street went up in 1859-60 on lots of the old Church Farm owned by Trinity Church or St. George's Church. Brooklyn restaurant proprietor George Bradshaw sublet the lots, and No. 74 stands on Trinity Church land. The identical Italianate stores are credited in an 1865 iron works catalog to "G.H. Giles", probably the architect James H. Giles, and the cast-iron storefront piers carry D.D. Badger & Co. foundry plaques.
- 1860
Hat and strawgoods dealers George and Jehail Read lease 74 Reade Street
The firm of George W. and Jehail Read, dealers in hats, caps and strawgoods, leased 74 Reade Street in 1860-62. In 1859 George Read bought from Bradshaw the lease on the adjoining 76 Reade Street, and the firm probably used both. Later tenants of No. 74 included cutlery maker Emil Deplanque in the 1880s and hardware and cutlery wholesaler Charles W. Congdon in the 1890s.
- 1920
By the 1920s, 74 and 76 Reade Street are joined and host twine wholesalers and express firms
Two buildings, 74 and 76 Reade Street, had been joined by the 1920s. They then shared tenants including the twine wholesalers D.D. Winne Co. and the express firms Haug's Express, Hall's Motor Express and the Corona & Flushing Express Co. In the 1950s wholesale shoe firms, among them the Shane Shoe Co. and the Smart Footwear Corp., filled the space, along with the offices of the Registered Nurses Guild.
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