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Fraunces Tavern, at Pearl (left) and Broad Streets. Pearl Street is a street in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan, running northeast from Battery Park to the Brooklyn Bridge with an interruption at Fulton Street, where Pearl Street's alignment west of Fulton Street shifts one block south of its alignment east of Fulton Street, then turning west and terminating at Centre Street.
The potash could then be baked in a kiln to further refine the substance into a pearly white material called pearl ash, pearl-ash or pearlash. The lye and potash stages were commonly performed on site by the settlers themselves, and the asheries only performed the final step and most difficult step of converting the black salts to pearlash .
Fraunces Tavern is a museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.The location played a prominent role in history before, during, and after the American Revolution.
The James Watson House, at 7 State Street between Pearl and Water Streets in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1793 and extended in 1806, and is now the rectory of the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. [3] It is located near the southern tip of Manhattan Island, across from Battery Park.
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A four-story structure was built at 71 Pearl Street in 1826, on part of the Stadt Huys Site; [7] the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated it as a city landmark in 1965. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] However, it was destroyed in 1968 to make way for an office tower, plans for which ultimately stalled. [ 8 ]
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Looking east Looking north. Hanover Square is a square with a public park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.It is triangular in shape, formed by the intersections of Pearl Street and Hanover Street; Pearl Street and a street named "Hanover Square" itself (whose opposite side of Pearl continues as Hanover St.; and William Street (northern continuation of "Hanover ...