22 Jones Street
West Village | built 1895
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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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- 1895
Schenk and Schlichte build a six-story paper-box factory on Jones Street
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George Schenk and A. W. Schlichte put up a six-story factory at 22 Jones Street around 1895 to make paper boxes. John Philip Voelker designed it in a Romanesque Revival style, with four of its six bays set within a tall round arch. Terra-cotta medallions on the facade carry the monogram SS, possibly for the owners' names.
- 1916
A Jones Street paper-box factory is retrofitted with a front fire escape and metal doors
In 1916 the factory at 22 Jones Street, which was not fireproof, received metal doors and other safety measures. To give workers a way out onto the new fire escape across the front, one window on every story was turned into a doorway.
- 1973
A paper-box factory on Jones Street becomes apartments after nearly eight decades of industry
No. 22 Jones Street, built around 1895, stayed in industrial use for nearly eight decades, until the 1970s when it was converted into apartments over a commercial ground floor. The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the alteration to 1973 and thinks the ground story was resurfaced in fieldstone veneer at the same time.
“…remained in industrial use until the 1970s when it was converted to a multiple dwelling with commercial ground floor…”
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