Meyer warehouse at 437-441 Greenwich Street
437 Greenwich Street | also 47 Vestry Street | Tribeca | built 1875
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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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- 1866
Henry J. Meyer turns a ship chandlery into one of Manhattan's early general warehouses
Henry J. Meyer's ship chandlery business, based at 395-397 Greenwich Street, flourished during the Civil War. Around 1866 he converted that building into a general storage warehouse, among the first of its kind in Manhattan, and began putting up warehouses on the block that includes this address, starting with 41-45 Vestry Street in 1867.
“Around 1866 he began to develop one of the early general warehouse operations in Manhattan, converting his Greenwich Street building for that use…”
- 1875
George DaCunha completes Meyer's red-brick warehouse group with a Rundbogenstil corner building
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Built in 1875 to designs by George W. DaCunha, this five-story warehouse was the last of four that DaCunha designed and built for Meyer on land leased from Trinity Church. Its Vestry Street front repeats the round-arched look of the 1867 warehouse next door, so the two read as one red-brick facade. The western part of that front, with segmentally arched windows, closely resembles his 1870 warehouse at 54-56 Laight Street.
“Constructed in 1875, it is one of several warehouses on this block designed and built by George W. Dacunha for Henry J. Meyer…”
- 1877
After Meyer dies, a warehouse company takes over, and Port Warehouses later signs the building
Henry Meyer died in 1877, and Baker & Williams, a warehouse company, acquired his buildings on this block. In the 1920s this one became one of several facilities run by Port Warehouses, Inc., whose painted signage is still visible on the building. It replaced two wood buildings and a masonry one on the site.
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