178 Franklin Street

also 180 Franklin Street | Tribeca | built 1910

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

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1910
Louis Charles Maurer designs a six-story loft at 178-180 Franklin Street, replacing two older buildings
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The 178-180 Franklin Street Company erected this building in 1910 to a design by the architect Louis Charles Maurer. It is 33 feet wide and six stories tall, and it took the place of two masonry structures. Its brick facade has limestone window surrounds and a perforated parapet.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1979
Upper floors become apartments after tenants from Beech-Nut Life Savers to a sausage firm
The upper stories were converted to residential use in 1979-80. Before that the building held a wide mix of food-related tenants, among them the Western Sausage & Provision Company, Progress Food Products and Beech Nut Life Saver, Inc. A mosaic sign above the ground floor names Roethlisberger & Company, an earlier tenant the Landmarks Preservation Commission thinks was linked to a Swiss-run cotton and cheese firm.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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