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New York
Architecture Images-Soho former New York Mercantile Exchange |
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architect |
Thomas R. Jackson |
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6 Harrison St. |
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1886 |
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a handsome brick tower and rusticated granite pillars at the base |
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Office Building |
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A five-story gabled brick building with a handsome tower and rusticated granite pillars at the base. The tall second-story windows opened onto the trading floor, where on a good day at the turn of the century $15,000 worth of eggs changed hands in an hour. The exchange was organized in 1872 as the Butter and Cheese Exchange, for commercial objectives (fostering trade, reforming abuses) and also social ones (promoting good fellowship, providing for widows and orphans of members). Recently the building has been converted to condominiums, and houses on the ground floor one of the many fancy new restaurants in Tribeca. |
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