One of Joseph Papin’s drawings that was a part the photo gallery that we sent to the Library of Congress in the summer of 2015 was this drawing of Schermerhorn Row. I found where it had appeared in the Daily News as a part of the “Undiscovered Manhattan” series by Hope Cooke. I didn’t recognize the name, Schermerhorn Row, but I recognized it immediately as the South Street Seaport. I looked up Schermerhorn Row and found many references, two of which I’m including here. One is from an archived page on the South Street Seaport Museum webpage describing a show they had at the Museum from October 2016 to January 2017:
“The Architecture of Trade: Schermerhorn Row and the Seaport examines the life of Schermerhorn Row, Manhattan’s only surviving row of Federal style merchant counting houses, and its place in the Seaport at South Street through the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as its connection to New York’s enduring urban evolution. What happened on South Street ignited New York’s transformation from a provincial trading town into a global metropolis. The architecture of Schermerhorn Row traces this dramatic change.” (https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/architecture-of-trade-schermerhorn-row-and-the-seaport/)
“The Schermerhorn Row Block, located at #2 through #18 Fulton Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, was constructed in 1811–12 in the Federal style,[2] and is now part of the South Street Seaport. Each of the individual houses were designated New York City Landmarks in 1968, and the block was collectively added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schermerhorn_Row_Block)
South Street Seaport Museum & Schermerhorn Row, Google map
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