12 Vestry Street

Tribeca | built 1883

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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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  1. 1883

    Trinity Church builds a seven-story Haight warehouse at 12-16 Vestry Street

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    In 1882-83 the Trinity Church Corporation put up a seven-story warehouse here, designed by Charles C. Haight and built by Lewis H. Williams. It was one of several Tribeca warehouses Haight designed for the church, alongside 443-453 Greenwich Street and 34-38 Vestry Street. The red brick front shows its structure through projecting piers and corbelled bands, and it took the place of a stone yard.

    “Built in 1882-83, it was one of several buildings in the Tribeca area designed by Charles C. Haight for the Trinity Church Corporation…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1920

    Hard rubber and fountain pen makers fill the warehouse in the early 1920s

    The building was a manufacturing and trading address in the 1910s and 1920s. The Theodore W. Morris glass company rented space through the 1910s. By the early 1920s tenants included the American Hard Rubber Company, a fountain pen firm named Wall, Stick, the W.A. Shaeffer Pen Company and the braid dealers A. Siegrist Company. Book binders and radio makers followed in the 1940s.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1925

    Canal Street widening for the Holland Tunnel cuts 36 feet off the building

    In 1925 Canal Street was widened ahead of the Holland Tunnel's construction, and a strip 36 feet deep was removed from the warehouse's Canal Street end. The new Canal Street front, built around that year, closely resembles the neighboring Tunnel Administration Building at 4-10 Vestry Street. The building still runs through the block to its Vestry Street front.

    “A thirty-six foot deep portion of the building fronting Canal Street was removed in 1925 when the street was widened…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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