19 Jay 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
Grocery merchant John Mohlmann builds a five-story store and loft at 19 Jay Street
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John H. Mohlmann, a successful grocer, had been buying lots near Greenwich and Jay Streets since 1880. In 1888 he put up this five-story building, designed by William Graul, where an older brick structure had stood. By 1892 he held four more lots toward the corner; his heirs cleared them in 1899 for the large building at 339-343 Greenwich Street.
“This building at 19 Jay Street was constructed in 1888 and by 1892 Mohlmann owned four more lots, closer to the corner…”
- 1888
A neo-Grec facade with a cast-iron storefront and an elaborate corbelled parapet
William Graul gave the three-bay brick and stone facade neo-Grec ornament. The ground floor has cast-iron piers, a frieze decorated with rosettes and a dentiled cornice. Above the metal awning, the piers rise between the windows to a corbelled parapet, and most of the windows keep their original wooden sash.
“This brick and stone building is three bays wide and exhibits ornament in the neo-Grec style.”
- 1991
Bazzini nut and dried-fruit company owns and occupies the building when the district is landmarked
Over the decades 19 Jay Street housed produce merchants and then butter and egg dealers. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Tribeca West Historic District in May 1991, the building belonged to the Bazzini Brothers Company, which processed and distributed nuts and dried fruit. Bazzini also held most of the neighboring buildings on Greenwich Street between Jay and Harrison.
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