15 Charles Street

also 211 Waverly Place | West Village | built 1961

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  1. 1819

    The Eagle Mills lot is lost by its company in 1819, then bought by the owners of an Eagle Distillery at No. 15

    The north side of Charles Street, between Waverly Place and Greenwich Avenue, was once the Eagle Mills property, which the Eagle Manufacturing Company forfeited in 1819. Najah Taylor and Nathaniel Richards bought it at auction, and Richards's interest later went to Guy Richards. Taylor and Richards owned the Eagle Distillery, which stood on the site of today's No. 15. This was an industrial use of the land long before the houses of the 1840s.

    “…the site of the Eagle Mills, which the Eagle Manufacturing Company lost in 1819... Taylor and Richards had owned the Eagle Distillery on the site of No. 15.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1847

    Taylor and Richards keep two lots and sell the rest to builders and tradesmen when the Eagle Mills block is developed

    In 1847 Najah Taylor and Guy Richards developed the old mill block as housing. They kept two lots on the site of the distillery at No. 15 and sold the remaining lots along the new Warren Place, now Charles Street. The buyers were all in the building trades, among them a mason, carpenters, a blacksmith, a stone cutter, a marble cutter, a plumber and a man in the bluestone business.

    “In the development of 1847, they retained two lots on that site, selling the other seven lots facing the new Warren Place (now Charles Street)…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1961

    An eighteen-story apartment tower replaces five houses on the Charles Street and Seventh Avenue corner

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    Bayshore Apartments, Inc. had this eighteen-story brick tower built in 1961, with Village Towers Company as builder. It is entered from Charles Street at No. 15, fills the whole Waverly Place frontage facing McCarthy Square, and has stores along Seventh Avenue South. It replaced five houses. The Landmarks Preservation Commission faulted its large window groupings on Charles Street as out of keeping with the small houses beside it.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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