Armitage Building

87 Pearl Street | also 54 Stone Street, 89 Pearl Street, 54 Stanton St Extension | Financial District | built 1836

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  1. 1660

    Richard Smith's two Dutch buildings stand on this lot in 1660

    The 1660 Castello Plan shows two structures belonging to Richard Smith, a landowner who never lived permanently in New Amsterdam, on the site of today's 87-89 Pearl Street. His attorney sold both in 1662. In the early 1800s the shoemaker Joseph Sayre lived at No. 87, and No. 89 housed J. T. Hall and Sarah Penny, who made mantuas (a kind of cloak). All of these were earlier buildings on the site.

    “Smith had his attorney sell those two buildings in 1662. During the early nineteenth century, the site consisted of two lots.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1893

    Mary Armitage raises two old stores to six stories and joins them as the Armitage Building

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    John Steward, Jr. built two store and loft buildings here after the 1835 fire and converted them to offices in 1871. In 1893 Mary E. Armitage had the architects Jordan & Giller add height to reach six stories and merge them into what was called the Armitage Building. For about two decades around 1900 the property belonged to Franklin A. Wilcox, a Wall Street attorney.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1919

    Marine insurer Percy Chubb buys the building and has it extensively altered for his firm

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    Percy Chubb, who founded the marine underwriters Chubb & Son in 1883 with his father Thomas, bought the property in 1919. He commissioned an extensive alteration for the firm, which was headquartered at 5-7 South William Street. The architect was A. C. Jackson.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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