131 Watts Street

Tribeca | built 1900

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1899
Franklin Baylies designs a six-story coffee-trade building for Samuel Crooks on Greenwich Street
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The corner building at Greenwich and Watts Streets went up in 1899-1900 for the wholesale tea and coffee merchant Samuel Crooks. Architect Franklin Baylies gave it a Renaissance Revival design with a top-floor arcade, and it was the last of four buildings built for the Crooks business on the block. The first, at 464 Greenwich Street, dated from 1892.
“Erected in 1899-1900, it was designed by Franklin Baylies for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale tea and coffee merchant. This building is the last of four buildings constructed for the Crooks business…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
Samuel Wilde Sons and later Galvanoni & Nevi Brothers occupy the Crooks building
After Crooks, the building housed other importers. The Samuel Wilde Sons Company, which also imported and roasted coffee, had its base here in the 1910s and 1920s. Later the importing firm Galvanoni & Nevi Brothers was here until shortly before the district's designation, and remnants of its sign remain above the Greenwich Street base.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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