405 Greenwich Street

Tribeca | built 1886

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1886
Builder and developer Joseph Naylor commissions a six-story store and loft building
In 1886 Joseph Naylor, who had founded a contracting and real estate firm, hired William Graul to design this six-story building on the site of an early-nineteenth-century masonry house. A year earlier Naylor had built the factory-style building at 55-57 Beach Street on the same block, and he put up other buildings in the district as well.
“The building was commissioned in 1886 by Joseph Naylor , founder of a building contracting and real estate firm; Naylor had erected on this block the warehouse-type building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1940
A painted Embassy Foods sign marks the south wall of a building once used by J.J. Harrison
Around 1940 the J.J. Harrison firm was among the occupants of 405 Greenwich Street. Embassy Foods occupied the adjacent building at 407-411 in the mid-twentieth century, and probably this one too, and its advertisement is still painted on the south wall. A late 1980s renovation covered the facade in scored stucco.
“Occupants of the building included the J.J. Harrison firm around 1940. A painted sign on the south elevation of the building advertises Embassy Foods…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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