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Adjoining this site stood the first Dutch fort on Manhattan Island, known as Fort Amsterdam, and the first house here was erected before 1664. In 1771 Captain Archibald Kennedy built his residence here, and in 1776 it served as General George Washington's headquarters and later as General Howe's during the British occupation. It was later used as a hotel. After it was torn down in 1882, the Washington Building replaced it and was transformed in 1920-21 into this building for occupancy by its owners, The International Mercantile Marine Company, and became known as No. 1 Broadway.
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