174 Hudson Street
also 21 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1901
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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.
- 1900
Paste-and-glue maker Samuel Weil builds a six-story warehouse at 174-178 Hudson
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Louis Korn designed the building in 1900 for Samuel Weil, head of a paste and glue company that moved to 371-375 Greenwich Street after 1905. Weil developed several other Tribeca properties, including 36 Laight Street. He and later his estate rented space to tenants such as the Flint & Walling Manufacturing Company, a pump maker, and paper-stock dealers Joseph Libmann & Company.
- 1901
Louis Korn gives 174-178 Hudson a light orange brick facade with tall granite-trimmed arcades
The warehouse has seventy-five feet on Hudson Street and 115 on Vestry Street. Korn used light orange ironspot brick with rock-faced granite piers and bands, and four-story arcades rise from pilasters topped with carved granite capitals. Cast-iron mullions frame the windows in the arcades, and a bracketed sheet-metal cornice finishes the top.
- 1966
Consolidated Terminal Warehouses buys 174-178 Hudson, a storage warehouse
After a 1918 tenancy by the Adolph Goldmark & Sons food importing firm, which had moved from 165 Hudson Street, the building later housed the New Drug Company, wholesale druggists. Butterfield-Barry bought it in 1948 and leased it to the Graphic Paper Corporation. In 1966 Consolidated Terminal Warehouses acquired it, and Eagle Transfer Corporation was using it for storage when the report was written.
“In 1966 it was acquired by Consolidated Terminal Warehouses, Inc., and remains in use as a storage warehouse by Eagle Transfer Corporation.”
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