91 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
Ruche maker John Mack has Renwick & Sands design 91 Franklin Street
John Mack, a merchant and manufacturer of ruches, the pleated or ruffled trim used on clothing, owned other property in the area and built this five-story loft in 1865-66. Renwick & Sands designed it in the Italianate style, with a marble front and a marble cornice. Its cast-iron storefront framing, documented in an 1865 Badger's Architectural Iron Works catalogue, may survive behind a late-1940s brick and limestone veneer.
“Built in 1865-66 for John Mack, a merchant and manufacturer of ruches (ruffles or pleats of fine fabric)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1869
Shirt makers, a Pittsburgh firm and the Campe commission house pass through 91 Franklin Street
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The Osborne & Cheesman Co., shirt manufacturers, occupied the building in 1869, and in the 1890s Charles R. Porzel & Co. of Pittsburgh kept offices here. By the 1920s it was owned by Emanuel Campe, who headed the Campe Corporation, a commission merchants' firm, and in the 1940s the Seneca Textile company was the occupant. At designation a gallery held the ground floor and the upper stories were residential.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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