14 Jay Street
Tribeca | built 1882
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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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- 1882
Tobacco merchant D. Buchner builds an eight-story loft at 14 Jay Street
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In 1882 the tobacco merchant D. Buchner commissioned Berger & Baylies to design an eight-story store and loft building on Jay Street, replacing a brick dwelling. The building is only about twenty-five feet wide. In the late nineteenth century it served as a tobacco processing factory.
“This structure was built in 1882 for tobacco merchant D. Buchner, and designed by Berger & Baylies…”
- 1950
14 Jay Street becomes a butter and egg warehouse with a wholesale market below
By the middle of the twentieth century the former tobacco factory at 14 Jay Street was a butter and egg warehouse, with a wholesale market on its first story. At the time of the district report the ground floor was commercial, with apartments above.
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