39 Vestry Street

Tribeca | built 1930

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1. 1872

   Ship chandler Henry J. Meyer adds a third warehouse at 39 Vestry Street

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   George W. DaCunha designed this five-story warehouse in 1872 for Henry J. Meyer, with William P. Petit as builder. It extended Meyer's 1867 warehouse next door and was the third of four he built on land leased from Trinity Church. Meyer's ship chandlery on Greenwich Street had flourished in the Civil War, and about 1866 he began one of Manhattan's early general storage operations.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1920

   Engineering and shipping firms lease the Menck warehouses in the 1920s

   William Menck bought this warehouse in the late 1880s, having built the neighboring one at 37 Vestry Street in 1882. During the 1920s both of his buildings were rented to an engineering firm, Weinberg & Posner, and to the Russian-American Warehouse & Shipping Company. It later became part of the large Port Warehouses operation, and the report notes it in storage use by the International Oriental Food Corporation.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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