41 Vestry Street

also 39 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1930

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  1. 1833

    The First Wesleyan Chapel, a Methodist church, stands on the site around 1833

    Around 1833 a Methodist Episcopal congregation built a church on this site, called both the First Wesleyan Chapel and the Vestry Street Church. The two-story church served the congregation until the mid-1850s. This was an earlier building on the site of today's warehouse.

    “Around 1833 a Methodist Episcopal Church, known as the First Wesleyan Chapel and the Vestry Street Church, was built on this site.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1855

    The former church is converted to commercial use, first for a sugar refinery company

    In the mid-1850s the church building was converted to commercial use. Its first occupant was the Grocers Steam Sugar Refinery Company, whose operation stood nearby at 79-101 Laight Street. Wells, Butterfield & Company later used it as a stable. These uses took place in the earlier church building on the lot.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1867

    Henry J. Meyer turns the former church into the first of his warehouses on the block

    In 1867 Henry J. Meyer, leasing from the Trinity Church Corporation, had architect George W. DaCunha remodel and enlarge the two-story church into a five-story, sixty-two-foot-wide warehouse with a new round-arched brick facade. It began an extensive warehouse complex that later flanked it at 39 Vestry Street and 437-441 Greenwich Street, forming one united red brick front.

    “With the remodeling and expansion in 1867 of a former church building into this warehouse ... Henry J. Meyer began the construction of an extensive warehouse complex…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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