132 Perry Street

West Village | built 1915

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  1. 1868

    The Perry Street Methodist Episcopal Church is the first building on the site

    The first building at 132-134 Perry Street was the Perry Street Methodist Episcopal Church, put up around 1868-70 on land belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church's New York Sunday School & Missionary Society. After the congregation left, the building was sold in 1913 to a wholesale grocery firm, which turned it into a garage.

    “The first building on the site was the Perry Street Methodist Episcopal Church (c. 1868-70) at No. 132-134 Perry Street.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1886

    The Seeman brothers' White Rose grocery firm, founded in 1886, keeps its garage here until 1956

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    Joseph and Sigel Seeman started their wholesale grocery firm in 1886 with a partner named Doremus, after leaving their uncle's business. It sold canned corn, tomatoes and peas under the White Rose label, boosted by Ceylon tea from 1901, and was a pioneer in canned fish, especially tuna. Horse-drawn delivery wagons lasted until 1930, long after trucks began arriving in 1905. The firm kept this Perry Street garage until 1956.

    “Seemans Brothers gave the "White Rose" name to their successful line of canned goods, initially corn, tomatoes, and peas…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1914

    Seeman Brothers turn the former church into a garage with a Robert Kohn facade

    Seeman Brothers Co. bought the old church in 1913 and in 1914-15 had it altered into a garage behind a new facade by Robert D. Kohn. Kohn had already designed the firm's stables across the street at 131-133 Perry Street in 1905 for the same grocery firm.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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