Rogers Peet Building

The original building, located at Broadway and Warren Street, belonged to the Emanuel Hoffman estate.

[1] For 25 years the ground floor of the Rogers Peet Building was occupied by tailors Devlin & Company, who paid an annual rental of $45,000.

[3] At the center of the business section of late 19th century New York City, the conflagration spread to the sixteen-story Home Life Building.

At 2 a.m. on December 4, 1898, bystanders on Broadway watched as another floor of the burnt out Rogers Peet Building collapsed and fell.

A single pane from the top floor of the edifice fell onto a statue of patriot spy Nathan Hale, and broke into a thousand fragments.