Juilliard livery stable

27 Downing Street | West Village | built 1893

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1893

    Helen Juilliard replaces an old house on Downing Street with a livery stable by Alfred Zucker

    Helen Cossitt Juilliard, wife of the millionaire Augustus D. Juilliard, bought the old house at 27 Downing Street in 1893 and had architect Alfred Zucker design a livery stable in its place. His plans, filed that May, put the cost at $20,000. Zucker used the American Round Arch variety of Romanesque Revival in beige brick, and a carved horse's head in the gable announced the building's purpose to passersby.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1920

    Louis Barbieri buys the former stable at auction and turns it into the Pioneer Bottling Co.

    After the Juilliard estate put 27 Downing Street up for auction in January 1920, Louis Barbieri bought it with an $8,400 mortgage supplied by the estate. He ran the Pioneer Bottling Co. and had architect Charles E. Miller convert the stable into a bottling plant in the cellar, a two-car garage on the ground floor, a lodge room above and an apartment on top. Prohibition kept the firm to soda water, but it prospered enough to expand the building in 1924.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1970

    Spring

    Two young men open a Hollywood costume warehouse on the ground floor

    Jeffrey Joerger and Michael Malce opened a Hollywood memorabilia warehouse on the ground floor of 27 Downing Street in the spring of 1970. When The New York Times visited that July, costumes once worn by stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo and Lana Turner hung on makeshift racks, with furniture from the film 'Father of the Bride' scattered about. Mickey Rooney's striped blazer was among the pieces they showed off.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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