84 Franklin Street

Tribeca | built 1836

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1836

    Patrick Julius and Matthew L. Bujac of Philadelphia build a house at 84 Franklin Street

    The Bujacs, probably brothers, lived in Philadelphia and apparently built the house at 84 Franklin Street as an investment. It was one of many Federal-style homes on the block occupied by merchant families. The house was later converted into the commercial building that stands today.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1845

    April 24

    Merchant Anthony S. Perrot's imported French furnishings are auctioned at 84 Franklin Street

    Merchant Anthony S. Perrot lived in the house until 1845, when he returned to France. His furnishings were sold on April 24, and the auction catalog advertised imported French pieces, among them mahogany chairs, a piano forte, and gilt clocks. Bronzes of Voltaire, Rousseau and Napoleon were on offer too, a sign of how refined the block was before dry goods firms moved in.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1869

    September 19

    Fire-damaged house is rebuilt as a sandstone-fronted loft by the Jardine brothers

    After fire damaged the brick dwelling on September 19, 1869, dry goods merchants Adolph and Leopold Bernheimer bought it. They hired the architects D. & J. Jardine, who raised the facade four feet, installed a cast-iron storefront and clad the front in rusticated sandstone. A bracketed Italianate cornice finished the job.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1874

    February 4

    Jury frees a tailor caught with stolen shawls from a burglary at Moser & Stevens

    On January 3, 1874, a burglar with false keys broke into the dry goods firm Moser & Stevens here and took 69 shawls. Detectives then raided the East 16th Street rooms of tailor Alfred Jacques, finding skeleton keys, lockpicks, stage costumes and three of the shawls. Despite what the New York Times called a fully proved case, the jury acquitted Jacques on February 4, to everyone's astonishment.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1896

    Umbrella maker Goldman & Lazarus employs 26 people at 84 Franklin Street

    Perhaps the first tenant outside the dry goods trade, the umbrella factory of Goldman & Lazarus was here by 1892. In 1896 it employed five men, two boys, fifteen women and four girls under 21, working 54 hours during the week plus extra time on the weekend. Its help-wanted ads asked applicants to bring their own sewing machines.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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