140 Perry Street
West Village | built 1909
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- 1909
The Fleischmann yeast company builds an early reinforced-concrete stable
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The Fleischmann Co. filed in April 1908 for a five-story loft at 140-144 Perry Street, then re-filed in July for a four-story stable. Turner Construction Co. built it in 1908-09 to Arthur M. Duncan's design in reinforced concrete, a method still new for the time. When trucks replaced horses it became a garage, and by 1925 it also held a refrigerating plant.
- 1922
Prohibition cuts the Fleischmann gin business and the firm turns to a yeast campaign
Fleischmann, which owned this Perry Street stable and ran its New York offices at Washington and Perry Streets, also made industrial alcohol and gin. Prohibition began in 1919, and in 1922 the Prohibition Commission revoked its permits for industrial alcohol. The company answered with a "Yeast for Health" advertising campaign that carried it through until gin production resumed in 1933.
- 1929
A J.P. Morgan-backed merger turns the garage into a Standard Brands office
In 1929 J.P. Morgan & Co. organized a $430 million merger of food manufacturers with the Fleischmann Co. at its center, because of the firm's nationwide delivery system. The new holding company, Standard Brands, Inc., also took in Royal Baking Powder and Chase & Sanborn coffee. This Perry Street building served as its Manhattan agency, New York division office and order department until it was sold in 1944.
“With the $430 million dollar merger, the new holding company was named Standard Brands, Inc.”
- 1996
A former stable once owned by sculptor Joel Shapiro becomes condominium lofts
The sculptor Joel Shapiro owned the former stable from 1993 to 1995. Cary Tamarkin then bought it for $1.675 million and in 1996 converted it into condominium loft apartments, adding steel awning windows and rooftop penthouses and bulkheads to the concrete building.
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