87 Franklin Street

Tribeca | built 1866

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

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1866
Jane Aycrigg builds a five-story store and loft at 87 Franklin Street
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The building went up in 1865-66 for Jane Aycrigg, on a lot about 24 feet wide and 100 feet deep midway between Church Street and Broadway. Its stone front has three window bays per floor, with molded surrounds and flat pediments on the second through fourth stories. It replaced an older, smaller structure that had a small rear extension.
“It was built in 1865-66 for Jane Aycrigg.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
Dry-goods firms from Iowa and Chicago keep their New York offices at 87 Franklin Street
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In the 1890s the building held New York offices of out-of-town dry goods houses, among them Liddle & Carter from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Chicago's Jacob Meyer & Bros. A 1919 lease brought in the hosiery makers Contoocook Mills Corp. and the Cohn Hall Marx Company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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