34 Gansevoort Street
West Village | built 1870
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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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- 1870
Bank president and druggist William M. Giles builds a French flats house with a store on the ground floor
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William M. Giles, president of the Excelsior Savings Bank in 1870 and a druggist on Sixth Avenue, had this five-story building put up to designs by the Irish-born architect Charles Mettam. It held one family per floor above a ground-story store. Giles sold the building in 1877, and his druggist firm, William M. Giles & Co., went bankrupt the next year.
- 1877
The Sickles family, including General Daniel E. Sickles, buys the building
In 1877 the building passed to the Sickles family, whose members included George G. Sickles, a lawyer; George Stanton Sickles, who was charge d'affaires at the American embassy in Madrid while the Spanish-American War was fought; and Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, a congressman and minister to Spain. The family put the property up for auction in 1895, and Mary A. McBride bought it.
“The next owners, the Sickles family, included prominent members: ... Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, a lawyer, Congressman, and minister to Spain.”
- 1924
Koster Butter & Egg Co. guts the building for its wholesale egg and butter business
In 1923 the Koster Butter & Egg Co., headed by Christian Koster, acquired the building, and in 1924 it gutted the interior, added an extension at the rear and put a metal canopy over the front. The company failed in 1935, and the building was foreclosed on four years later. Marglo Products, a wholesale fruit importer, was a long-term tenant from 1946 to 1993.
“The firm gutted it, extended it at the rear, and installed a metal canopy in front for its wholesale egg and butter business…”
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