407 Greenwich Street

also 15 Hubert Street, 409 Greenwich Street | Tribeca | built 1915

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  1. 1867

    Meat packer Frederick Beckstein buys the Greenwich Street lots and builds a five-story loft building

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    In 1867 Frederick Beckstein, who ran a large family business in meat packing and real estate, bought the lots at 407-411 Greenwich Street, which the Eagle Fire Company of New York had owned. He cleared three early residences and a small Hubert Street building and quickly put up a five-story store and loft building designed by John M. Forster. It was one of the first commercial buildings in this northern part of what is now the Tribeca West district.

    “In 1867 Frederick Beckstein, founder of a large family business involving meat packing and real estate development, acquired the lots…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1881

    Carpet firm W. & J. Sloane buys the building from Beckstein and occupies it for about a decade

    Beckstein sold the property in 1881 to W. & J. Sloane, a prominent carpet company, which used the building until around 1890. The structure had been built as three nearly separate 20-foot-wide buildings, divided inside by brick walls for fire protection. In the 1890s title belonged to the real estate partners Charles F. Hoffman Jr. and William M. V. Hoffman, and the building served as a cheese warehouse.

    “Beckstein sold the property in 1881 to the prominent carpet firm of W. & J. Sloane which occupied the building until around 1890.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1940

    The Embassy Grocery Corporation occupies the building for nearly three decades

    From about 1940 until the late 1960s the building was home to the Embassy Grocery Corporation, whose advertising sign was painted on the neighboring wall of 405 Greenwich Street. By the 1980s a bakery warehouse was using it. A late-1980s renovation covered the brick facades in scored stucco and removed the cornice over the ground-floor base.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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