Fairchild Publishing Building
10 East 13th Street | also 6 East 13th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900
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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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- 1888
John Glass builds a six-story warehouse at 6-10 East 13th Street and sells it to Eugene Hoffman
Glass hired the architect Gilbert A. Schellenger, who designed a red-brick Renaissance Revival warehouse over a cast-iron base, with terra-cotta ornament and a crenelated parapet. The Record & Guide put its cost at $75,000 in February 1888. Built just as wealthy families were leaving lower Fifth Avenue, it was done by year's end, and in December Glass sold it to Eugene A. Hoffman for $170,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1896
Butterick Publishing, the sewing-pattern firm, buys the building as a storage warehouse
Butterick Publishing Company bought the building from Hoffman in 1896. Ebenezer Butterick had made the first graded sewing patterns in 1863, and the business grew to about 100 branch offices across the United States and Canada. Architect Lansing C. Holden did $30,000 of work, but court papers later said the building was used for storage, with no printing machinery.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1912
A union printer wins back a trade-journal contract after a non-union rival's first job goes badly
Carey Printing Company, a union shop founded in 1898, leased the building from Butterick in 1905 and printed posters, advertising and weekend newspaper supplements here. In 1912 a non-union firm won the contract for Crerand's Cloak Journal, boasting it could use any workmen. The Typographical Journal reported that the first job was so poor that Crerand's canceled it and returned the work to Carey.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1916
Fairchild Brothers, publisher of Women's Wear Daily, buys the building and remodels it as a printing plant
The Record & Guide of December 2, 1916 reported the sale of the building by Butterick to Fairchild Brothers, the firm founded in 1892 that began publishing Women's Wear Daily in 1910. Charles E. Birge was hired for $50,000 in interior alterations. The remodeled building printed Women's Wear, the Daily News and the Men's Wear Director. Fairchild stayed about three decades.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1947
A yacht and engine dealer shows its twenty-six-foot Marlin fishing cruiser at 10 East 13th Street
After Fairchild left, Bruns, Kimball & Co., sellers of yachts, marine engines and motorboats, took the building. The Sun reported on January 10, 1947 that its display rooms here exhibited a 26-foot Marlin sport fishing cruiser, among the first postwar boats made in quantity, along with other cruisers and dinghies. The firm had represented Kermath engines for about 35 years.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1979
The warehouse is converted to residences, with new balconies and a lower parapet
By the mid-1970s the Stuyvesant Bicycle shop had the ground floor, and in 1977 it added a roller that turned a regular bike into a stationary one. In 1979 the tenants had to leave for the conversion to apartments. The cast-iron pilasters were kept, the ground floor was redone, new balconies like small platforms were added across the front, and the parapet came off.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
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