Thomson Meter Company Building
100 Bridge Street | also 158 York Street, 110 Bridge Street | DUMBO | built 1909
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- 1909
The Thomson Meter Company completes a new four-story factory at Bridge and York Streets
The Thomson Meter Co. got the corner lot in June 1908, and building began that November. It was finished in April 1909. The first floor held offices and stock and shipping rooms, the second and third floors held manufacturing machinery, and the fourth floor was a foundry.
- 1909
Louis Jallade's factory shows its poured-concrete frame, decorated with colored terra cotta
Louis E. Jallade designed the building, and the Hennebique Construction Co. poured its reinforced concrete structure on site. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it a pioneering American example of a concrete structure expressed on the exterior. Multicolored brick spandrels and glazed terra cotta above the arched windows decorate it.
“…a pioneering American building that employs, in part , a frank exterior expression of its concrete structure…”
- 1927
The building is sold to the New York Eskimo Pie Corporation for about $350,000
John Thomson died in 1926, and his meter company was bought by Neptune Meter and moved to Long Island City. In 1927 the New York Eskimo Pie Corp., a recently formed subsidiary of the Louisville firm, bought the Bridge Street building for roughly $350,000. R.S. Reynolds Sr. was its president, and the Brooklyn Eagle hailed the plant as a boost for the borough's manufacturing standing.
“The Thomson Meter Co. Building was sold in 1927 for approximately $350,000 to the New York Eskimo Pie Corp.”
- 1938
Foremost Dairies runs a milk pasteurization plant and depot in the former meter factory
By 1938 Foremost Dairies was operating a pasteurization plant and wholesale depot in the old Thomson building, and it was named handler for a new citywide milk cooperative. A 1942 alteration filing described the structure as a four-story milk bottling distribution establishment.
- 1941
Swift & Co. leases the plant to make Eskimo Pie products for the New York-Philadelphia region
Swift & Co. began leasing the plant in 1941 to produce Eskimo Pie products as a franchisee for the New York and Philadelphia area. The company owned the building from 1952 until 1966.
- 2004
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the factory as a city landmark
The commission held its hearing on December 9, 2003, where twenty-one people spoke for designation, among them representatives of the DUMBO Neighborhood Association and the Historic Districts Council. The owner's representative spoke against. The report dated February 10, 2004 designates the Thomson Meter Company Building (later the New York Eskimo Pie Corporation Building) a landmark.
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