99 Chambers Street

also 165 Church Street, 159B Church Street, 159A Church Street | Tribeca | built 1938

Open on the map3 entries

The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1854

    Two six-story lofts built for Thomas Suffern stand on the Church Street site until 1937

    In 1854-55 two six-story store and loft buildings went up on this lot for Thomas Suffern. They first housed dry-goods dealers and later the usual mix of the district, including agents for hardware makers and shoe wholesalers. They were replaced in 1937 by the present Art Deco building.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1937

    D.P. Harris Hardware builds a six-story Art Deco factory-showroom filling the Church Street blockfront

    Read more

    The D.P. Harris Hardware Manufacturing Co. built a steel-frame, six-story building in 1937-38 along the whole 151-foot Church Street blockfront between Chambers and Reade Streets. It was designed by Jardine, Murdock & Wright in the Art Deco style, with buff brick piers, steel windows and cast-stone panels with abstract patterns at the top.

    “Built in 1937-38 for the D.P. Harris Hardware Manufacturing Co., this structure was designed in the Art Deco style by the firm of Jardine, Murdock & Wright…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1938

    D.P. Harris moves into its new building, with a showroom upstairs and factory floors above

    Harris had rented at 99 Chambers Street for more than ten years before building its own home. Building Department records describe stores at street level, with the second floor given to offices and showrooms and the third through sixth floors to factory use. The company stayed into the 1950s, and its tenants included the Ferncook Diner, the drill makers Whitman & Barnes, and press clipping services such as Burrelle's.

    “According to Department of Building records the present building originally contained retail space on the ground story, offices and showrooms on the second floor…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Nearby

All 564 buildings with stories in Tribeca