184 Duane Street

Tribeca | built 1882

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1882
Flour merchant Gilbert Oakley builds 184-186 Duane Street on a triangular lot
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Gilbert Oakley, a flour merchant, commissioned the five-story store and loft building in 1881-82 from the firm Berger & Baylies, which did a good deal of commercial work in the district. The lot is triangular and the building runs about forty-four feet along Duane Street. It took the place of two wood-frame dwellings.
“Constructed for flour merchant Gilbert Oakley in 1881-82, it was designed by Berger & Baylies…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
From wholesale grocers to a meat-packing plant to coffee importers at 184-186 Duane Street
Burton & Davis, wholesale grocers, used the building in 1900 and 1904, and a meat-packing plant was there in 1905. By 1946 it housed the Bergen Coffee Company, the Holland American Coffee Company and the butter-and-egg wholesalers Beer & Davies. When the district was designated it was home to the Wilshire Eggs Company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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