85 Broad Street (Goldman Sachs headquarters)

85 Broad Street | Financial District | built 1983

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1670

   Governor Lovelace builds the King's House tavern next to the Stadt Huys

   In 1670 Francis Lovelace, New York's second English governor, had a tavern built beside the old Dutch city hall, the Stadt Huys. It was an earlier building on this site, and the city borrowed it as a temporary city hall from 1697 to 1703, until a new one opened at Wall and Nassau Streets. The tavern is said to have operated until 1706. Its remains turned up in 1979, when the present tower at 85 Broad Street was being planned.

   “The King's House (also known as the Lovelace Tavern) was a bar built in 1670 by New York's second English governor, Francis Lovelace…”

   Source: Wikipedia

2. 1979

   Archaeologists dig the Stadt Huys block before the Broad Street tower rises

   Before construction at 85 Broad Street, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission required an excavation, the first archaeological project carried out under its review process. The initial survey was funded by Dollar Savings Bank with a gift of between $100,000 and $150,000, and fieldwork ended on August 29, 1980. The team recovered more than four tons of material, including clay pipes and a barrel of empty wine and rum bottles. The LPC hired its first archaeologist in 1980 as a result.

   “The Stadt Huys Block was the first archaeological project performed under the auspices of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission…”

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1979

   The Lovelace Tavern's foundation walls are preserved under a clear cover on the Broad Street plaza

   Archaeologists who dug at 85 Broad Street in 1979 found no trace of the Stadt Huys itself. They uncovered instead the foundation walls and floor of the Lovelace Tavern, an earlier building on this site, along with thousands of fragments of clay pipes, wine glasses and bottles. The tavern walls were kept and can be seen beneath a Plexiglass cover on the plaza of the present building.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

Further reading

• A colonial tavern is unearthed on Broad StreetEphemeral New York

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