426 West 14th Street

West Village | built 1910

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1910
Butcher Jacob Mayers, founder of The Butcher's Advocate, builds a six-story warehouse
Jacob Mayers (about 1855-1943), a butcher, had this six-story neo-Georgian warehouse built in 1908-10 from designs by Lafayette A. Goldstone. In 1886 he had founded the trade paper The Butcher's Advocate and he kept it until selling it in 1928. The building was at first used mostly for light manufacturing, with a cafeteria on the ground floor in the 1920s and 1930s, before meatpackers began moving in during the late 1930s.
“In 1886, Mayers founded the trade publication The Butcher's Advocate, which he owned until its sale in 1928.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1943
Mayers dies and his will leaves the warehouse to a group of charities
After Jacob Mayers died in 1943, his will passed this property to a group of charitable institutions, which held it until 1955. It was then bought by Bernard Monath, owner of Monath Beef & Provision Corp., who also owned 440 and 442 West 14th Street. In 1977 Alfred P. Seligman's Imperial Veal & Lamb Co. acquired it and ran it as a meat market together with 420-424 West 14th Street.
“After Mayer's death in 1943, his will left this property to a group of charitable institutions, who retained it until 1955…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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