157 Christopher Street
West Village | built 1904
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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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- 1904
G. D. Kuper & Bros., a shipping and trucking broker, builds its headquarters at 157 Christopher Street
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Architect Frederick Steigleiter designed this three-story brick office building in 1904 for G. D. Kuper & Bros., brokers who arranged ship, lighterage and trucking freight under George D. Kuper and his brothers Charles P. and Jacob E.W. The firm, which also owned a stable and warehouse at 838-840 Greenwich Street, stayed here until it was dissolved in 1930. The Kuper family kept the building until 1940.
“…the headquarters of G[eorge]. D. Kuper & Bros., a ship, freight lighterage, and trucking brokerage firm headed by George D. Kuper…”
- 1939
Regionalist painter Bernard Steffen keeps a studio at 157 Christopher Street
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Around 1939 Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907-1980), a regionalist American artist from Neodesha, Kansas, had a studio in this building. His 1938 mural inside the Neodesha post office was among his works of the period. The Kuper shipping firm that built the house had left in 1930, and in 1961 the upper stories were converted to one apartment each above a ground-floor store.
“Bernard Joseph Steffen (1907-1980), a regionalist American artist, had a studio here (c. 1939)…”
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