Tighe Building
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(Market House)
- 289 East Fifth Street (between Wall and Broadway) -
- 1902, J. Walter Stevens -
Like many others in Lowertown, this warehouse was built as a rental property with considerable unheated space for storage. Ambrose Tighe, who married one of Conrad Gotzian's daughters, apparently considered capital investment in Lowertown a good way to make his money work.