10 Bleecker Street
also 304 Elizabeth Street | NoHo | built 1894
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1894
Engineer John T. Williams designs and builds a factory at Bleecker and Elizabeth Streets
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John T. Williams, a Columbia School of Mines graduate listed in city directories as a civil engineer, an architect and a capitalist, designed and built this factory in 1893-94. He is also credited with the Lord's Court Building, a fifteen-story speculative office building at William Street and Exchange Place, and with a warehouse at 34-36 Cooper Square, and he ran a firm with his son, John T. Williams & Son.
“John Townsend Williams (1852-1915) was born on Long Island and received his degree from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1873.”
- 1940
Fur dealers and garment makers fill 10 Bleecker, and tool-and-die shops arrive around World War II
Through much of the first half of the twentieth century the building housed mostly fur dealers and garment manufacturers, among them the Hercules Shoe Manufacturing Co., the Petra Wood Novelty Co. and the clothing contractor Max Mirsky, each there for fifteen to twenty years from about 1935. Around World War II tool-and-die makers, woodworkers and more garment makers moved in, and the Eagle Die Cutting Co. and the Admiration Knitwear Co. became long-term occupants.
“Around World War Two, many tool and die, woodworking, and additional garment makers began moving into the building.”
- 1986
The upper floors of 10 Bleecker turn residential, and the building becomes a co-op in 1986
By the mid-1970s loft dwellers were moving into upper stories left empty as the garment industry pulled out, and by 1980 the upper floors were entirely residential. A renovation in 1986 turned the building into cooperative apartments, and its roof cornice may have been removed around then. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 2003 report found it still in residential use.
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