118 Hudson Street

Tribeca | built 1915

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

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1895
The Etzel brothers replace their converted grocery house at 118 Hudson Street with a six-story loft
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Joseph and Albert Etzel commissioned this six-story, twenty-one-foot-wide loft in 1895 to replace the converted dwelling that had housed their grocery business. By 1890 they had also set up the Etzel Brothers real estate firm, and the new building later became a rental property. In the early twentieth century the importing firm of Waeber & Lea occupied it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
A Columbia College architecture instructor designs 118 Hudson Street in yellow iron-spot brick
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Charles R. Behrens, who taught in Columbia College's School of Architecture in the 1890s, designed the building. Its upper facade is yellow iron-spot brick in a restrained Renaissance manner, with granite cornice bands and rock-faced lintels, and it is meant to relate to the more elaborate Renaissance Revival building next door at 120 Hudson Street. The base has a wide loading bay between cast-iron piers.
“…designed by Charles R. Behrens who was on the faculty of the School of Architecture of Columbia College in the 1890s…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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