Peck & Co. The firm imported tin, tin plate, iron, and brass from England and exported cotton from the South to the textile mills in England. They owned two brick buildings at this location. Number 189 was later owned by Josiah Macy, a sea captain from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who established a successful business shipping whale oil, and later expanded into the New York-Liverpool trade. His granddaughter established the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in honor of her father, Josiah Macy Jr. who continued the family business. In 1804 the mercantile establishment of Minturn & Champin operated out 191 Front Street. Mintern was active in the Old China Trade. In 1821, a fire destroyed many of the frame buildings on the east side of Front Street. Modern era Gouverneur Hospital opened in 1885 on the previous site of a public market at Front Street and Gouverneur Slip. The forty bed hospital primarily treated acute and emergency cases. In 1901 the hospital relocated to a larger facility on Water Street. In 1907, The Manhattan Oil Company operated out of 51 Front Street. From the spring of 1910 to October 1913, William Ottman and Company had a conduit under Front Street bringing brine for the purposes of refrigeration from its plant on Fulton Street to its warehouse on Water Street. The conduit was removed when the company left the Fulton Market. The buildings at 237-257 Front Street were demolished for the Consolidated Edison Substation constructed in 1974. References Streets in Manhattan Financial District, Manhattan