Peddie & Morrison Store

77 Chambers Street | Tribeca | built 1848

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The lot about 1940
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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. 1857

    Trunk makers Peddie & Morrison remake a hotel wing with an iron front

    In 1857 the leather trunk and luggage firm Peddie & Morrison leased this former part of the Irving House hotel from David Selden as a sales room. They kept the old rear and side walls but rebuilt the interior with cast-iron columns and added an ornate cast-iron front made by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works. In front of the building, one of the few cast-iron sidewalks still left in the city survives.

    “Peddie & Morrison retained the rear and side walls from the hotel but rebuilt the interior with cast-iron columns for additional support…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1866

    Thomas B. Peddie, trunk maker, becomes mayor of Newark and later a congressman

    Thomas B. Peddie (1808-1889), who managed the firm that leased 77 Chambers Street, was born in Scotland, emigrated in 1833 and began making leather trunks and bags in Newark. He served in the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1864-65, was mayor of Newark from 1866 to 1869, and sat in Congress in 1876. In 1872 he gave $25,000 to a Hightstown school that was renamed the Peddie Institute.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1889

    Peddie leaves the Chambers Street building to a Newark church

    On Peddie's death in 1889 he willed ownership of 77 Chambers Street to the First Peddie Memorial Baptist Church of Newark, which kept it into the early twentieth century. In the 1880s and 1890s it was leased to a cigar importer and to hardware and cutlery wholesalers. Later tenants included a metal-goods supplier, the Chambers Music Co. and radio supply companies.

    “…willed ownership of 77 Chambers Street to the church, which retained it through the first decades of the twentieth century.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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