29 9th Avenue

also 403 West 13th Street | West Village | built 1903

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  1. 1903

    Boring & Tilton design a six-story tan-brick liquor warehouse for John Jacob Astor IV

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    John Jacob Astor IV, whose family had owned the corner since 1819, put up this six-story warehouse in 1902-03 at Ninth Avenue and West 13th Street. The architects, Boring & Tilton, had finished their Ellis Island immigration station complex only a year before. The first tenant, from 1903 to 1918, was Steinhardt Bros. & Co., liquor importers, and other wine and liquor wholesalers used the building as well.

    “The initial lessee of this structure, from 1903 to 1918, was Steinhardt Bros. & Co., importers and wholesale liquor dealers.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1918

    E.C. Rich, a maker of glaceed fruits, takes over the warehouse and gives it the name Rich Building

    In 1918 E.C. Rich, Inc., a firm established in 1860, became the building's major tenant, and the place came to be called the Rich Building. Alterations in 1920 turned it into a food-processing plant. By the New York Times's account in 1944, Rich was one of the biggest processors of glaceed fruit in the country, and it stayed until it went bankrupt in 1951.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1997

    The old Rich Building sells for over $8 million and is redeveloped as offices, a hotel and club, and a restaurant

    After Rich's bankruptcy the building held a mix of firms: electronics, meat, printing and paper concerns, plus screw-and-bolt and moving-and-storage outfits. A painted advertisement for Bogen Sound Systems from about the 1950s can still be seen on the West 13th Street wall at the corner. The building sold for over $8 million in 1997, and between 2000 and 2003 it was redeveloped into offices, a hotel and club, and a restaurant.

    “This building was sold for over $8 million in 1997, and in 2000-03 experienced redevelopment into offices , hotel/club, and restaurant.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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