New York Pie Baking Company loft

206 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1890

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1. 1872

   The New York Pie Baking Company forms by merging several pie makers and grows to 25,000 pies a day

   The company began in 1872 when a number of separate pie makers consolidated. By the early twentieth century it was turning out about 25,000 pies daily, making it one of the city's largest commercial bakeries. The loft at 206 Spring Street is what remains of a bigger complex, most of which was torn down when Sixth Avenue was extended south along the district's western edge.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1890

   The New York Pie Baking Company builds a five-story loft at 206 Spring Street

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   Charles Hadden designed this brick factory building in 1890 for the New York Pie Baking Company, which kept its stable around the corner at 82 Sullivan Street. The company's president, John F. Kohler, invented labor-saving machines, among them one that let a single worker pare, core and slice more than 1,500 apples an hour.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1890

   Builder Charles Hadden, a Leroy Street resident, designs the pie company's loft

   Charles E. Hadden, born in New York and active until his death in 1896, followed his carpenter father into the building trade by 1850 and in 1860 designed what is now Washington Square Methodist Church on West 4th Street. A longtime resident of Leroy Street, he kept an office on today's West Broadway. In 1890 he designed the pie company's loft at 206 Spring Street, the only building credited to him in the Sullivan-Thompson district.

   “In the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District he was responsible for the design of one commercial loft building at 206 Spring Street.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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