Merchants' Refrigerating Company Building
25 North Moore Street | also 15 Varick Street | Tribeca | built 1924
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- 1924
Merchants' Refrigerating Company completes its sixteen-story cold storage tower at Varick Street
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The Turner Construction Company built this warehouse in 1924 for the Merchants' Refrigerating Company, replacing four three- and four-story commercial buildings. It was the last piece of the firm's complex on this block, which also included the buildings at 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37 North Moore Street. The company moved its offices from 161 Chambers Street into the two-story top of the new tower and owned it through the mid-twentieth century.
- 1924
John B. Snook Sons designs a windowless concrete shaft for wholesale dairy storage
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The fireproof reinforced concrete building rises from a two-story base through a twelve-story windowless shaft to two floors of offices. It has a 108-foot front on North Moore Street and a 75-foot front on Varick Street. The Commission described it as a response to the dairy trade's shift to larger refrigerated warehouses, and it was still storing cheese and ham for an importer when the district was designated.
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