John L. Hasbrouck Building

75 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 1868

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  1. 1868

    George Youngs gives 75 Hudson Street a marble facade over a cast-iron base

    The Landmarks Commission describes the 1868 building as one of the earliest surviving store and loft buildings on its block. Architect George Youngs set a marble Italianate facade above a cast-iron base, with two two-story arcades divided by a band course and rusticated end piers. It was meant as a store and warehouse for John L. Hasbrouck.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1868

    Wine importer John L. Hasbrouck builds a new headquarters near the Hudson River Railroad depot

    Born in Utica in 1810 to a Huguenot family, Hasbrouck came to New York in 1860 and founded John L. Hasbrouck & Co. five years later. The firm began as a wine importer and grew to include a distillery in Brooklyn. He hired George Youngs to build here, close to the freight depot Cornelius Vanderbilt had put on the old St. John's Park site in 1866. Hasbrouck died in 1895, aged 85.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1898

    November 18

    Dyestuff maker John Campbell & Co. buys the building for $80,000

    The sale to John Campbell & Co. was announced in November 1898 after Hasbrouck's sons moved their business to Brooklyn. Campbell, born in Liverpool, had founded his dye company in 1878; its factory was in Newark, New Jersey, and the Hudson Street building served as offices and shipping. The firm stayed until 1947, with companion firms Amalgamated Dyestuff and Republic Color also based here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1918

    John Campbell & Co. urges American dye makers to drop German color names

    With the United States at war, Campbell's president George H. Whaley circulated a pamphlet to other dye manufacturers insisting that American colors were as good as, and often better than, the German standards. He asked mill men to stop using German trade words and give American colors American names, calling it a matter of loyalty.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1919

    Executive George Whaley's romance with his stenographer ends in a $100,000 lawsuit

    Whaley, Campbell's president, had put the title of a West 88th Street house in the name of his private stenographer May M. Croke, and in 1919 he gave her a $2,200 diamond ring after divorcing his wife. Detectives he hired reported she had been seeing other men from the office, including Monte F. Jacobs. Effie Elizabeth Jacobs then sued Croke for $100,000 for alienation of affection and attached the house. Whaley kept his job.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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