Merchants' Refrigerating Company Building (1905)
27 North Moore Street | also 30 Ericsson Place, 22 Ericsson Place, 28 Ericsson Place | Tribeca | built 1905
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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1905
Merchants' Refrigerating Company builds a ten-story cold storage warehouse replacing six smaller buildings
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The Merchants' Refrigerating Company erected this L-shaped warehouse in 1905, running through the block from North Moore Street to Ericsson Place. It was the second building in the firm's complex on the block, after 35-37 North Moore Street of 1891. In the 1910s cooling towers went up on the roof, including a unit moved from the company's building at 9 Harrison Street, and the firm kept the building until the mid-twentieth century.
“…it replaced six smaller buildings on the site. This building was the second structure the firm erected for its complex on this block…”
- 1905
William H. Birkmire gives the cold storage warehouse tall arcades and a yellow brick front
Birkmire, an authority on steel construction, built the warehouse on iron columns and steel girders, with floors of cinder concrete. The North Moore Street front is yellow brick and the Ericsson Place front red brick, both with tall arcades and an attic story of abstracted Palladian windows. Few windows were needed in a cold storage building, and many of the openings have since been blocked.
“Built with iron columns and steel girders, and a cinder concrete floor system…”
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