250 West Street
Tribeca | built 1906
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- 1903
An eleven-story steel-framed warehouse replaces sugar-refinery buildings on the Hubert Street block
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The Varick Realty Company commissioned William H. Birkmire, a specialist in steel-frame construction, to design this eleven-story warehouse in 1903. It occupies most of the block between Washington and West Streets, with a 229-foot front on Hubert Street. It replaced older brick and wood buildings, including later ones that had belonged to the Grocers Steam Sugar Refinery complex.
- 1906
Colortype printers, box makers and confectioners rent lofts in the Varick Realty warehouse
Varick Realty leased warehouse space and manufacturing lofts to a mix of firms. Early tenants included the American Colortype Company, a paper box maker run by Edgar O. Clark, the confectionery firm Repetti and the Semon Bache glass company. By the 1940s the building made paper boxes, paint brushes and leather belting and housed a printing plant, until a 1987 conversion to offices.
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