363 Greenwich Street

Tribeca | built 1866

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1866
William Kain has Gage Inslee design a 75-foot store and loft building on a former marble yard
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Around 1866 the architect Gage Inslee, who opened his practice in 1844, designed this four-story building for William Kain. It was laid out to look like three connected Italianate buildings, with a cast-iron ground floor and a brick upper facade. The site had earlier been a marble yard, and by 1885 the iron and steel dealers Wetmore & Company were its tenant.
“Erected on the site of a former marble yard, by 1885 this building was occupied by Wetmore & Company, an iron and steel business.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1979
Butter-and-egg tenants give way to apartments in a 1979 residential conversion
Once the iron dealers left, the building housed a number of butter and egg firms, among them the Hotel Bar Butter Company, along with coffee, tea and produce merchants. A conversion for residential use followed in 1979, with commercial tenants kept on the first story.
“Later occupants include several butter and egg companies; the Hotel Bar Butter Company; and merchants of coffee, tea, and produce. The building was transformed in 1979 for residential use…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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