83 Leonard Street
Tribeca | built 1865
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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.
- 1865
Onesippe Pacalin completes a marble Italianate store with sperm-candle arcades at 83 Leonard Street
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Built in 1860-65 for Onesippe Pacalin, the five-story building replaced a smaller masonry store. Its upper facade has two-story arcades of the type nicknamed sperm candle, and a ground-floor bulkhead still carries the foundry mark of G.R. Jackson & Co. of 201 Centre Street. The architect is unknown.
“…constructed in 1860-65 for Onesippe Pacalin. Designed in the Italianate style, the marble facade above the first story is three bays wide…”
- 1930
Textile firm Deering, Milliken & Co. occupies 83 Leonard Street in the 1930s
The large textile company Deering, Milliken & Co. was a tenant of the building during the 1930s. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that textile firms still use it.
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