James Pyle building

430 Greenwich Street | Tribeca | built 1884

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

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1883
Soap maker James Pyle builds a seven-story factory for his Pearline business
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James Pyle commissioned Thomas R. Jackson to design a seven-story brick warehouse at 430-436 Greenwich Street, designed in 1883 and built in 1883-84. It was the first of five buildings Jackson designed for Pyle on the block, four of which still stand. Pyle moved the headquarters of his Pearline soap operation here from Washington Street. By the time he died in 1912 his main soap plant had moved to Shady Side on the Hudson.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1883
A lard refinery and older wood and masonry buildings are cleared from the site for Pyle's warehouse
Before James Pyle's warehouse went up in 1883, the site held several masonry and wood buildings, among them the lard refinery of William J. Wilcox & Company on the northern half of the block. Pyle's seven-story warehouse replaced them. The Landmarks Commission report does not give dates for the older structures.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Wholesale grocers move into the old soap factory
The wholesale grocers Birdsong Brothers took a lease in 1911 on the southern half of 430-436 Greenwich Street together with 428 Greenwich Street. The grocers Meyer & Lange then used the building from the 1910s into the 1940s. Later it served as a Port Warehouses facility, and that firm's signage was still on it when the Landmarks Commission surveyed it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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