93 Reade Street

Tribeca | built 2016

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  1. 1839

    The Jones family, including future society queen Mary Mason Jones, leaves its home at 93 Reade Street

    Before the present building, No. 93 Reade Street was a brick house of the wealthy Jones family. Isaac Jones Jr. married Mary Mason, daughter of Chemical Bank's John Mason, in 1819, and she later led New York society for decades. By 1839, as commerce crept in, the family moved to 734 Broadway, and jeweler James H. Shaw was operating from the house by 1843. This was an earlier building on the site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1857

    Joshua Jones replaces the family house at 93 Reade with a cast iron fronted store building

    Three years after inheriting the property, Joshua Jones had the old house razed and put up a five-story building. Its Italianate cast iron front, with fluted Corinthian columns and dentiled cornices, was picked out of the Architectural Iron Works catalogue of D. D. Badger. Such prefabricated fronts, which James Bogardus had spent a decade experimenting with, imitated carved stone and were fireproof. The building filled with dry goods and apparel firms.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1908

    May 11

    A landlord at 93 Reade complains he is stuck with the building after a tenant's bankruptcy

    In 1905 John H. Ireland leased the whole building to Wilhelmi, Hall & Co., a machinery and specialties firm, at $5,000 for the first year. The firm renewed early in November 1906, then ran into trouble, and a bankruptcy sale of its stock followed in April 1908. Ireland wrote to its head on May 11 that he had been unable to find a tenant and called the building an expensive proposition. By 1910 shoe firms had refilled it.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2015

    Obsidian House: WORKac renovates 93 Reade into three residences and a penthouse

    A 2015 renovation by the architects WORKac produced Obsidian House, with three large residences and a three-story penthouse that cannot be seen from the street. The ground-floor cast iron columns had lost their capitals by the 1980s, so sculptor Michael Hansmeyer designed replacements as a modern reinterpretation rather than a copy. The 1857 cast iron front was restored.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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