33 Great Jones Street
NoHo | built 1890
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1871
Willcox & Gibbs, the sewing-machine maker, builds a warehouse at 33 Great Jones Street in 1871
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The Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company, which specialized in industrial sewing machines and was incorporated in New York in 1866, commissioned Charles Wright to design this small Italianate building in 1871. The firm had kept an office at 658 Broadway, near Bond Street, since 1868. Its neighbor at No. 31 went up at about the same time.
“…designed by Charles Wright for the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company in 1871…”
- 1889
Future Plaza Hotel developer Bernard Beinecke buys 33 Great Jones Street in 1889
Bernard Beinecke and a partner bought the building from Willcox & Gibbs in 1889. An immigrant who began by driving a butcher cart, he had founded the meat firm Beinecke & Co. in 1872 and later developed the Plaza Hotel. His company leased the building back in 1890, and the cornice carries the words "Beinecke & Co.'s Stables".
- 1945
Trucking and auto-repair firms occupy 33 Great Jones Street, which is linked to No. 35 in 1945
Directory listings from 1929 to 1993 show the building used mainly by trucking companies and car-repair businesses. In 1945 an interior opening was cut to connect it with the loft building next door at 35 Great Jones Street, an alteration filed by the Dalian Co., Inc.
“Directory listings from 1929 to 1993 indicate that the building was occupied primarily by trucking firms and automobile repair businesses.”
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