The Tribeca West Historic District Walking Tour &
Tribeca Historic Districts & Neighborhood Slideshow Presentation View
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures & Stories

A few of the Slideshow Presentation highlight:

• Bogardus Triangle commemorates James Bogardus and the 1st cast iron building
• The Schepp's Bldg., 1880, built by "The Coconut King"
• The Western Union Bldg., - it was known as: the Telegraph Capitol of America
• The New York Mercantile Exchange, 1884 it was known as the Butter and Cheese Exchange
• Duane Park - Anneke Jans (Bogardus), her decendants claim to own Tribeca & they tried to get it back
• Washington Market Park commemorates the Washington Market and the Washington Street Market
• A row of landmark Federal houses dating from 1796 to 1828
• The AT&T Long Lines Bldg., from 1928
• site & pictue of the largest privately owned building in New York in 1858
• White Street House a modest two story landmark residential building from 1809
• The facade has hydrants, valves, pipe couplings & the New York City Seal
• N. Moore St. and Franklin St. the heart of Tribeca
• Beach St. and two 19th century tenements with commerical ground floors
  & a Utilitarian, Romanesque style, former warehouse with street signs incorporated into its facade
• Find out about the site of the Lispenard farm visited by George Washington
• See the site & picture of Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad terminal & of St. John's Chapel & park
• Find out about Lonely Genius of Hudson Square
• Find out about the real Finn of Finn Square & much more
• site of A.M.E. Zion Church where Frederick Douglass, & Sojourner Truth worshiped
• originally: The Kitchen, Montross & Wilcox Store, one of the few surviving cast iron building by James Bogardus
• origially: The New York Life Insurance Co. Bldg. from 1890 with its distinguished Classical Clock overlooking Broadway & the Clockwork Gallery
• The Metropolitan Life Insurance Bldg., a cast iron gem from 1870
• "The Leaning Landmark" a cast iron facade, from 1872, combining the Italianate style and the French Second Empire style
• originally: the David Brown Store, from 1876, combines brick, sandstone, cast iron with Romanesque & Venetian Gothic details
• The Cary Building, a landmark, masterpiece of cast iron design (Italian Renaissance) from 1857
• originally: The Hopkin's Store, a Borgardus cast iron building from 1857