Ground Zero Museum Workshop
420 West 14th Street | West Village | built 1900
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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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- 1904
Paper merchants Diedrich and George A. Fink build a six-story loft, and its builder later marries a presumed Fink widow
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The Finks, Diedrich and George A., who dealt in paper and woodware, had this six-story neo-Classical building put up in 1903-04, designed by Thomas H. Styles and built by John Jordan & Son. Both Finks were dead by 1909, when the property passed to Jordan, whose building firm went bankrupt the same year. In 1910 Adeline S. Fink, presumably a Fink widow, married Jordan.
“By 1909, both Finks were deceased and the property was transferred to John Jordan, its builder. Also in 1909, the building concern of John Jordan & Son went bankrupt.”
- 1921
The loft becomes a cold storage warehouse for meatpackers
In 1921, after the poultry dealer August Silz had owned it briefly, the building was turned into a cold storage warehouse serving meatpackers. A long-term tenant from 1929 to 1965, Edward Davis, Inc., supplied meat and poultry to hotels, restaurants and steamships. A painted sign for the firm is still partly visible above the fourth story.
- 1970
Alfred P. Seligman buys the building and houses his Imperial Veal & Lamb Co. in it
After the New York Loin Corp. owned and used the building from 1966 to 1970, it passed to Alfred P. Seligman, who also owned Imperial Veal & Lamb Co., a tenant here. When Seligman bought 426 West 14th Street in 1977, that building became associated with this one. In 1996-99 the upper floors were converted into offices.
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