87 Leonard Street
Tribeca | built 2016
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- 1863
Merchant Jonathan H. Ransom builds a wide Italianate store at 87-89 Leonard Street
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Between 1860 and 1863 the merchant Jonathan H. Ransom put up a five-story building about 48 feet wide and 125 feet deep, on a site that had held two earlier structures, one of them a masonry store. Its marble facade has two big arcades framing two-story bays. The architect is not known.
“…constructed in 1860-63 for Jonathan H. Ransom, a merchant.”
- 1875
Dry goods firms Kobbe & Ball and Jaffe & Pincus occupy 87-89 Leonard Street in the 1870s
During the 1870s the building was home to dry goods firms, among them Kobbe & Ball and Jaffe & Pincus. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission wrote its district report, a textile firm occupied it.
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