Eric Firestone Gallery
40 Great Jones Street | NoHo | built 1896
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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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- 1896
Thomas Keogh builds a seven-story Classical Revival loft at 40 Great Jones Street
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Architect E. G. Gollner designed this seven-story building for developer Thomas W. Keogh in 1895-96. Its cast-iron storefront, grouped windows, trio of arched windows on the top floor and bracketed galvanized-iron cornice follow Classical Revival ideas.
“…designed by architect E. G. Gollner and constructed in 1895-96 for owner Thomas W. Keogh…”
- 1961
Matthews Express and Van Co. converts 40 Great Jones Street from a factory to a packing and storage facility
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Before the war the building held small garment, hat and toy businesses and bookbinders; afterward metal-products and machine-works firms predominated. In 1961 Matthews Express and Van Co., a tenant, changed the legal occupancy from factory to packing and storage, and it bought the building in 1963. Commercial tenants were gone by the early 1970s and residential loft dwellers had moved in by mid-decade; today it is a cooperative of artists' live/work lofts, with commercial space on the ground floor.
“In 1961 under the tenancy of Matthews Express and Van Co. (which bought the building in 1963)…”
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