177 Hudson Street

also 27 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1901

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
Piano dealer William Dewey of Springfield develops a seven-story warehouse at 179 Hudson
William Dewey commissioned Wagner & Jahn in 1900 to design this narrow gray-brick warehouse, thirty-three feet wide on Hudson Street and 100 feet along Vestry Street. Dewey was a piano dealer from Springfield, Massachusetts, with a New York branch on East 14th Street. In 1901 the Ferdinand Frankel Display Fixture Company leased part of it and stayed into the 1920s.
“The developer of the building, William Dewey, was a piano dealer from Springfield, Massachusetts, who had a New York branch of his business on East 14th Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1907
Grocery executive John J. Burton buys 179 Hudson, and a cigar dealer works from a ground-floor store
John J. Burton, president of the wholesale grocery firm Burton & Davis Company, bought the building around 1907. During the 1920s Henry Bremer ran a cigar business from one of two first-floor stores, and the upper floors held both manufacturing and storage.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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