Franklin-Hudson Building

100 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 1910

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1855

    Frederick Beckstein's five-story packing house stands on the Hudson and Franklin Street corner by 1855

    In the mid-1800s the lot held four frame buildings, one cast-iron-fronted building and three masonry ones. By 1855 these had given way to seven masonry buildings, among them Frederick Beckstein's five-story packing house. His son Augustus later replaced them all with the Franklin-Hudson Building. These were earlier buildings on the site.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1910

    Meat packer Augustus C. Beckstein builds the ten-story Franklin-Hudson Building on his family's packing-house site

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    Meat packer and real estate developer Augustus C. Beckstein commissioned the ten-story building in 1909-10, with Alexander Baylies as architect. His business had occupied the site for many years, and he also used the neighboring building at 155-159 Franklin Street. It replaced earlier buildings on the lot, including a five-story packing house of his father Frederick Beckstein. Baylies and Beckstein each worked on other buildings in the district.

    “Designed by Alexander Baylies for Augustus C. Beckstein, a meat packer and real estate developer whose business occupied this site for many years…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1910

    Import-export, canning, candy and nut firms fill the Franklin-Hudson Building's offices and lofts

    Later tenants of the Franklin-Hudson Building included many import-export offices, canning and packing companies, stationers and printers, and dealers in candy, nuts, dried fruit, oils, mushrooms, rice, milk products and canned fish. Later owners of the building included The Recycling for Housing Partnership and the City Bank Farmers Trust Company.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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