424 Greenwich Street

also 68 Laight Street | Tribeca | built 1892

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1892
Sugar and flour dealer Claus Doscher has a seven-story warehouse built at Greenwich and Laight
In 1892 architect Benjamin Finkensieper designed this seven-story warehouse for Claus Doscher, a sugar and flour dealer with business interests nearby. It is faced in light red brick, with brick arches over the windows and a corbelled brick cornice. It has 37 feet on Greenwich Street and 75 feet on Laight Street.
“…designed in 1892 by Benjamin Finkensieper for Claus Doscher, a sugar and flour dealer who had business interests in the area.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Menzel & Company, fish importers, settle into the warehouse for decades
From 1911 through the 1930s the building was home to Menzel & Company, a fish importer. Before that, a tobacconist had taken the ground floor in 1893, when a chimney was added at the northwest corner, with manufacturing on the upper floors, and the United Wine & Trading Company leased it in 1899.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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