Richard [Nicholls] Harison / Harrison - Onondaga and Oswego ...

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“Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of Chancery of ..., Volume 4,” by New York (State). Court of Chancery, Lewis
Halsey Sandford, page 750.
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A lease was granted to George Harison, on the 24th of October, 1765, of a tract containing twenty-four lots between Greenwich
Street and the river, and situated between two streets which afterwards received the names of Harison and Jay streets, for a
term of ninety-nine years. This tract is shown by Ratzen's map to have been occupied by Mr. Harison, in 1767.
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Architectural Description
TRIBECA WEST HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION REPORT
HARRISON STREET
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/TribecaWest_HD.pdf page 227-229.
The one block of Harrison Street which is included in the Tribeca West Historic District is dominated visually by the large Mercantile
Exchange Building located on the northwest corner of Hudson and Harrison Streets. The rest of the block, west to Greenwich Street,
consists of masonry store and loft buildings with cast-iron bases constructed primarily in the 1880s and '90s.
On the north side of the street, the New York Mercantile Exchange (1885, Thomas R. Jackson), with facades on Hudson and
Harrison Streets, is a five-story brick and granite structure with superposed arcades and ornament inspired by the Queen Anne and
the Romanesque Revival styles. The building is distinguished from its neighbors by its prominent hipped and gabled roof and
western tower. Adjacent to this structure are three five and six-story store and loft buildings with brick and stone-trimmed facades,
all of which were built in the 1880s and designed by Thomas R. Jackson. Cast-iron shutters between the piers of the ground stories
present a uniform appearance. The rest of the blockfront is comprised of four- and five-story store and loft buildings with cast-iron
supporting members at the ground story. These buildings display a variety of decorative treatments, ranging from the simple,
utilitarian structures at No. 18 (1886, Detlef Lienau), No. 22 (1892, Peter Roberts) and No. 24 (1886, Edward Simon), to those
buildings which show an indebtedness to current architectural styles, such as No. 14-16 (1882, George DaCunha) which features a
four-story arcade, No. 20 (1892, P. Henry Gilvarry) which displays Renaissance Revival ornament in the spandrels and cornice, and
No. 26-28 (the side facade of 355-359 Greenwich Street, 1890, Leicht & Havel1) which is crowned by an ornate pedimented
cornice.
The south side of the block is divided into two parts by Staple Street. On the eastern section is the side facade of No. 81 Hudson
Street, a three-story, terra-cotta clad office building constructed in 1919, and a parking lot. To the west of Staple Street is a row of
four brick store and loft buildings with surviving cast-iron ground-story elements. Erected in 1893, the two buildings at No. 7-9
(William Schickel & Co.) and No. 11 (Thomas R. Jackson) are seven stories in height and have decorative treatments inspired by
the Renaissance Revival style. The four-story structures at No. 13 (1887, D. & J. Jardine) and No. 15-17 (1869-70, Charles W.
Huth) are simpler, utilitarian buildings with ornament typical of the neo-Grec style. Near the corner of Greenwich Street are two
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