38 Laight Street

Tribeca | built 1896

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1896
An architect builds a 96-foot-wide warehouse at 38-44 Laight Street on the site of four houses
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William H. Russell, a principal in the architectural firm Clinton & Russell, developed this seven-story warehouse in 1896, and his firm drew the plans. McCabe Brothers were the builders. The wide brown-brick facade has round-arched windows in its attic and second story, and iron fireproof shutters survive on many windows. It replaced four brick dwellings, which makes them an earlier use of the site.
“It was developed in 1896 by William H. Russell, a principal in the architectural firm of Clinton & Russell which drew plans for the building.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Warehouse firms, a pipe-fitting maker and a cordage company fill 38-44 Laight Street
In the early decades of the twentieth century Russell leased the property to the Bowling Green Warehouse Company and to Independent Warehouse, Inc. Later tenants included the Grabler Manufacturing Company, a pipe-fittings maker, Railroad Stores and the Republic Brass Company. The east portion went to the Independent Cordage Company until the Eagle Transfer Corporation acquired it for warehousing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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