1 Worth Street

Tribeca | built 1896

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1896
Robert and Ogden Goelet hire McKim, Mead & White to build a six-story dry-goods warehouse at 1-3 Worth Street
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In 1896 the brothers Robert and Ogden Goelet, members of a socially prominent New York family, commissioned this warehouse to store dry goods. McKim, Mead & White designed it, and Michael Reid & Company built it. The six-story building replaced one masonry structure and one frame structure on the site, and it keeps its original loading platform behind roll-down gates.
“…commissioned by Robert and Ogden Goelet, members of one of New York's most successful and socially prominent families, for the storage of dry goods…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
Rear passages join the warehouse to 10-12 Leonard Street, and it stores groceries and bakers' supplies
In 1905 openings cut through the rear walls connected 1-3 Worth Street to the neighboring building at 10-12 Leonard Street. Over the years the building stored groceries and the bakers' supplies of Jaburg Brothers, and the United States Egg Corporation later occupied its first story. The upper floors appear to have been converted to residential use.
“In 1905 the building was united to No. 10-12 Leonard Street via the opening of rear passages.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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