Schermerhorn Row
91 South Street | also 89 South Street | Financial District | built 1980
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1811
Peter Schermerhorn builds a row of counting-houses on water lots he bought and had filled
Peter Schermerhorn (1749-1826), a ship owner and leading Manhattan merchant, bought the water lots here in 1793. The land was partly filled by 1797 and fully filled by 1807. He began the row of counting-houses in 1811 and leased them to other merchants. Soon afterward Robert Fulton's Brooklyn ferry began landing at Schermerhorn's wharf, close to the row.
“Peter Schermerhorn bought the land on which the buildings of Schermerhorn Row now stand in 1793, when the site was still a series of water lots.”
- 1897
Kurtzer and Rohl raise 91 South Street from four stories to five to hold a hotel
No. 91 South Street was built in 1811-12 as one of Peter Schermerhorn's counting houses, four stories high plus an attic. In 1897 the architecture firm of Kurtzer and Rohl gave it a full fifth story, turning it into a hotel with a shop at street level. A metal fire escape and a bracketed cornice were added when it was remodeled, though both have since been removed.
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- 1981
Archaeologists find traces of an old pier under the Row while it is restored, amid at least four strikes
Between 1981 and 1983, while crews renovated Schermerhorn Row, archaeologists studied the block and found traces of an old pier underneath it. The restoration, which added sprinklers and heating, had grown to $10.3 million by mid-1983. The Wall Street Journal reported at least four strikes by workers, and in at least one of them unions insisted on costlier materials that also took longer to install.
“…researchers found traces of an old pier underneath the site.”
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- 1983
After the state buys the block and artists move in, a restoration reopens Schermerhorn Row
New York State bought the Schermerhorn Row block in 1974 for $1.1 million. Artists moved in and organized as the Schermerhorn Row Artists and Residents Association, and by 1979 the block had at least 100 residents, many opposed to the planned redevelopment. The E. W. Howell Company returned the buildings to their 1812 look in a restoration that ran from 1981 to 1983, and the block reopened on July 28, 1983, with tenants including Strand Bookstore and Sloppy Louie's.
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