22 Little West 12th Street

also 26 Little West 12th Street, 63 Gansevoort Street | West Village | built 1908

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

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1908
A Standard Oil subsidiary builds two stables on Little West 12th Street
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The American Transfer Company built the stables at 22-30 Little West 12th Street between 1908 and 1911, to designs by John M. Baker. The firm was a Standard Oil subsidiary that had controlled the company's northeastern oil pipelines since 1873. Directories also list a Greenwich Stable Company here, which the report takes to be another subsidiary because Simon Hess headed both firms.
“The American Transfer Co. was an important subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co., in control of Standard's northeast oil pipelines after 1873.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1927
The Rubel coal and ice company buys the stables after a $25 million merger
In 1927 the Rubel Coal & Ice Corporation, headed by Samuel Rubel, bought both stables. It had just merged its assets with the Ice Service Company and two other firms in a $25 million deal, and was said to control forty ice factories and fifty coal and ice stations. Rubel sold its coal business to Burns Brothers in 1929 and rented out the buildings to other businesses from 1931 until 1939.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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