161 Hudson Street

also 45 Laight Street | Tribeca | built 1912

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1910
A dried-fruit firm and Hugh Getty put up an eight-story warehouse on Hudson and Laight
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George E. J. Pistor designed this warehouse in two phases. Frank E. Habicht and Herman W. Braun ordered the fifty-one-foot-wide northern half in 1910, and in 1911 Hugh Getty, whose firm built all of it, received plans for the southern half. The site had held two early-nineteenth-century masonry houses, one later converted into a four-story tenement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
Habicht & Braun add a rooftop drying room for dried fruit and nuts
Habicht & Braun, dealers in dried fruit and nuts who had previously worked from 20-22 Worth Street, used the warehouse into the 1940s. In 1915 the building received a penthouse meant to serve as a drying room. Later tenants included the First Machinery Corporation and, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Majestic Paper Company.
“…it was altered in 1915 with the addition of a penthouse to be used as a drying room…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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