28 Laight Street

Tribeca | built 1920

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1889
Helen Juilliard develops a six-story loft building at 28 Laight Street
Richard Berger designed this through-block store and loft building in 1889-90 for Helen Cossitt Juilliard, who developed three similar utilitarian buildings on the block. She was the wife of Augustus D. Juilliard, a dry-goods merchant who later led the Metropolitan Opera. Helen was a member of the managing board at the Lincoln Hospital and Home for Colored Persons and endowed a fund at the American Museum of Natural History. Before the loft went up, the lot held a masonry dwelling facing Laight Street, with a small outbuilding toward Vestry Street.
“Helen Cossitt Juilliard (1847-1916) was the wife of Augustus D. Juilliard, founder of a dry goods business…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1922
The building at 28 Laight Street is joined to its neighbor, later becoming self-storage
In 1922 the Laight Street loft was connected internally to the building to its east, and by the 1950s all three buildings on the stretch were linked. From the early 1900s to mid-century, wool clippings were processed in the upper floors of these buildings. In 1989 the three adjoining buildings and a fourth to the west became the New York Security Mini Storage facility.
“In 1922 this building was joined internally to the building to the east and in the 1950s all three buildings were joined internally.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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