83 White Street
Civic Center | built 1882
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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.
- 1882
Lawyer William P. Dixon builds a cast-iron loft designed by J. Morgan Slade
William P. Dixon, a lawyer, had two masonry dwellings replaced in 1881-82 by this five-story store and loft building, about 50 feet wide and nearly 100 feet deep. J. Morgan Slade, an architect and builder influenced by French design, drew the neo-Grec cast-iron facade, and his relative William G. Slade did the masonry. The roll-down shutter still bears the mark of the Cornell Iron Works.
- 1895
Dry goods firms use the building; a Virginia firm keeps offices here and Chase Brass later owns it
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According to the district report, dry goods firms generally used the building for offices, storage and workrooms. One 1890s tenant, M. Cohen Son & Company, was based in Petersburg, Virginia. In the 1940s and 1950s the Chase Brass & Copper Company owned it.
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