17 Vestry Street

Tribeca | built 1917

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1917
A fire-damaged wagon repair shop is remodeled for William Ziegler at 17 Vestry Street
William Ziegler had rented this two-story wagon repair and blacksmith shop since 1901, taking over from Frederick Pheiffer, who had worked in it for roughly thirty years. After a fire damaged it, Ziegler had it altered in 1917 with a rear addition and a new front designed by William C. Winters. The twenty-foot-wide facade has a vehicle opening flanked by windows.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1985
The old workshop becomes studios in 1985, after barrel making and a coffee service business
In the 1940s the building was used to make barrels, and by the 1960s it belonged to the Knickerbocker Coffee Service. In 1985 owner Melvin Rauch had architect John Furth Peachy convert it into studios. That work added a set-back third story and asymmetrical parapets, and brown stucco was applied over the brick front.
“The 1985 conversion of the building for use as studios included the construction of the set-back third story and asymmetrical parapets…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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