Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity Headquarters

226 West Broadway | Tribeca | built 1912

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

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1912
A wing of Ward School No. 44 stands on the lot at 226 West Broadway before the city builds a repair station there
Before the present building, the city-owned lot at 226 West Broadway held a wing of Ward School No. 44, which was located at 10-12 North Moore Street. The Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity erected a four-story headquarters on that lot in 1912.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
The city builds a terra-cotta headquarters for the repair crews of its high-pressure fire service system
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In 1912 the Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity put up this twenty-five-foot-wide building to house the unit responsible for repairs to the high-pressure fire service system. Augustus D. Shepard Jr., who spent most of his career as an architect in the Adirondacks, faced it in cream-colored glazed terra cotta. Its Secessionist ornament uses hydrants, pipes and valves, with the agency's name set in a panel at the second story.
“…headquarters for the repair company of the high pressure fire service system…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1967
The Department of Welfare runs a maintenance shop in the former water-department headquarters
In 1967 the building was occupied by the Department of Welfare's Maintenance Shop, so it was still in city use decades after its water-department days. By the time of the Tribeca West district report it was in private ownership.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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