83 Pearl Street
also 50 Stone Street | Financial District | built 1836
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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.
- 1658
Tavern keeper Solomon La Chair builds a house here and moves his tavern in
In 1658 Solomon La Chair, a tapster in New Amsterdam, put up a dwelling on this lot facing the Waal, today's Pearl Street, and relocated his tavern into it. The venture did not pay, and he sold the house in 1661 to Oloff Stevensen van Cortlant. A smaller house also stood on the lot facing Hoogh Straet, today's Stone Street, and La Chair's estate administrators sold it in 1666. This was an earlier building on the site.
- 1792
Synagogue leader Alexander Zuntz, a founder of the 1792 brokers' guild, lives in a house here
Alexander Zuntz both owned and lived in a house at 83 Pearl Street, an earlier building on this lot. During the British occupation of New York he kept soldiers from seizing the Shearith Israel synagogue, and he later served as the congregation's president. In 1792 he was among the founders of the Stockbrokers Guild, the group from which the New York Stock Exchange grew.
- 1836
Obadiah Holmes and James Bailey rebuild after the Great Fire with a crockery warehouse
Holmes and Bailey, partners in a Front Street mercantile firm, owned the lot when the 1835 fire struck, and by 1836 they had put up the four-story store and loft building that stands today. Its first tenants, Underhill & Seymour, sold crockery. Later owners included the lawyer Frederic R. Coudert, a president of the New York bar association, and in 1969 the interior was joined to its neighbor at 85 Pearl Street.
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- 81 Pearl Street3 entries
- 52 Stone Street1 entry
- 79 Pearl Street4 entries
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- 77 Pearl Street4 entries
- 58 Stone Street2 entries