367 Bleecker Street

also 87 Charles Street | West Village | built 1868

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  1. 1868

    Grocer Henry Kugeler has Henry Engelbert design a pair of Second Empire flat buildings

    In 1867 the grocer E. C. Henry Kugeler hired architect Henry Engelbert, then at work on the Grand Hotel on Broadway, to design four buildings on the northeast side of the corner where Bleecker Street meets Van Nest Place, now Charles Street. Two were houses on Van Nest Place and two were mirror-image store-and-flat buildings on Bleecker, finished in 1868. Each had slate mansard roofs, pedimented dormers and room for three families above the shop.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1877

    Kugeler moves his own grocery into the ground floor after a printing venture fails

    A printing company launched here in 1876 by the clerk George H. Springsteen, who lived upstairs, replaced the dry goods firm Cole & Fox. It lasted only a year. In 1877 Kugeler, who still owned the building, moved in his grocery, which had stood at 386 Bleecker Street when he built the corner. The Springsteens left for Bank Street the same year.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1910

    October 30

    A resident teamster is arrested after rioting during the teamsters' strike

    The Walsh family, headed by an express-wagon driver, lived upstairs in 1910. That summer the city's teamsters went on strike, and on October 31 police were told to shoot anyone seen inciting a riot. After the previous day's fighting, the New-York Tribune reported that John Walsh, a driver of 367 Bleecker Street, had been locked up for assaulting Patrolman M. J. Hogan.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1920

    February 19

    Revenue agents find wine and gin in the corner grocery and the owner is jailed

    After Prohibition began, grocer Peter H. Rieper was selling more than eggs and celery. The New-York Tribune reported on February 19, 1920 that federal revenue agents named Loftus and Jacobs turned up thirteen bottles of wine along with some gin in the grocery at 367 Bleecker Street. Rieper went to jail.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1967

    Two partners open Pierre Deux, a French country antiques shop, on the corner

    In 1967 Pierre Moulin and Pierre LeVec opened Pierre Deux, an antiques shop for French Provincial furniture, and added French windows throughout the building. They soon began importing fabrics from the south of France, and the Times later counted 22 Pierre Deux shops around the world. After they retired in 1989 and sold the rest, this store stayed open until 2011. Burberry took the space in 2013.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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