139 Franklin Street
also 137 Franklin Street | Tribeca | built 1915
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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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- 1850
The Fourth Associated Reformed Church makes its home on the site of 139-141 Franklin Street
In the 1850s a two-and-a-half-story Gothic Revival building on this lot was the home of the Fourth Associated Reformed Church. In 1873 Havilah M. Smith built a five-story brick rear addition for Taylor & Wilson, for use as a factory and workshop. By 1887 the produce and grocery merchants Beach & Sherwood occupied the addition, and at some point the former church was converted to commercial use. The warehouse now at 139-141 Franklin Street was built here in 1909.
“Previously on the site stood a two-and-a-half-story Gothic Revival structure which had been the home of the Fourth Associated Reformed Church during the 1850s.”
- 1909
Maynicke & Franke design the ten-story Strohmeyer & Arpe warehouse at 139-141 Franklin Street
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Strohmeyer & Arpe Company, an importing business started in 1882, commissioned the ten-story warehouse from Maynicke & Franke, and it was finished in 1909. It is a little over fifty-three feet wide, with a two-story base faced in coursed stone and five loading bays. The six-bay facade has a chamfered eastern bay where it follows the irregular street line.
- 1922
F & B Lunch Corp. replaces a six-story building with a two-story one at 137 Franklin Street
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The two-story commercial building at the corner of Franklin Street and West Broadway was erected in 1921-22 for the F & B Lunch Corp. Rudolph C.P. Boehler received the permit after the first designer, Maxwell A. Cantor, had worked on it for the Merchants Holding Company. It replaced Dacunha's six-story building of 1879-80, and the lot had earlier held Riley's Fifth Ward Museum, which the report does not date. The building was refaced in aluminum siding and stucco in the 1980s.
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