Shinola building
177 Franklin Street | Tribeca | built 1888
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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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- 1888
Frederick Jenth designs a five-story neo-Grec loft for William Grupe at 177 Franklin Street
Construction ran from 1887 to 1888 on a lot where one masonry building had stood before. Architect Frederick Jenth gave it a cast-iron ground floor, with piers cast at the Lindsay Graff foundry, and a brick and stone upper facade. Grupe added a sixth story in 1890, when the loft was in use as a candy factory.
- 1910
William Grupe sells 177 Franklin Street to politician Peter G. Gerry
William Grupe owned the loft from its completion until 1910, when he sold it to Peter G. Gerry, a politician. Gerry, who was turning his attention to a political career, passed it on in 1919 to one of the building's tenants.
“William Grupe retained ownership of the building from its completion in 1889 until 1910, when he sold it to famed politician Peter G. Gerry…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1991
City landmarks report lists cheese and food firms as past tenants of 177 Franklin Street
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Tribeca West Historic District in May 1991, its report named some of the loft's earlier occupants, the Newark Cheese Company and Sante Foods. At that time the China Brilliance Corp. had the ground floor, with apartments and an electrical contractor's office above.
- 2009
Community board committee pushes back on a six-foot copper cross for the church at 177 Franklin Street
Glad Tidings Tabernacle, an Assemblies of God church moving from West 33rd Street, planned to reopen in the Franklin Street loft. Its plans included a copper cross six feet tall and 30 inches wide on the facade. A Community Board 1 committee gave advisory approval on January 8 if the cross was made smaller, but the cross then disappeared from the plans altogether.
Source: amny.com
- 2013
Shinola opens its New York flagship, with a cafe entrance and a 1930s bronze world map
Shinola, the Detroit watch and leather-goods brand, opened its Tribeca flagship at 177 Franklin Street in July 2013, only its second store. The entrance was a newsstand cafe run by the restaurant Smile. Inside, one wall held a large bronze Mercator map of the world dating to the 1930s, which had been rescued from the lobby of an oil company in Rockefeller Center.
Source: hodinkee.com
- 2020
The Shinola building sells for $16.75 million after Bedrock held it nine years
Bedrock Real Estate Partners bought the Franklin Street building in 2011 for $14.25 million and listed it in 2018 at $23 million. A deal went into contract in December 2019 and closed in late March 2020, as the pandemic began, at $16.75 million to a private investor. Shinola's flagship was the tenant.
Source: commercialobserver.com
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