440 West 14th Street
also 872 Washington Street, 874 Washington Street | West Village | built 1920
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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.
- 1887
James W. Cole designs a corner Queen Anne flats building with shops for the Astors
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This corner building at 440 West 14th Street went up in 1887 as French flats, meaning apartments, over a store, to the design of James W. Cole. It was one of a pair: its twin to the south, on the next lot, was demolished by 1936. At the same time Cole had two other buildings under construction for the Astors, among them a long five-story market building across Washington Street.
“…this French flats building (actually one of a pair, the other one was located to the south on Lot 19; it was demolished by 1936)…”
- 1927
The ground floor becomes a wholesale meat market in 1927 as the flats upstairs empty out
In 1927 the ground story was converted into a wholesale meat market and the second story into offices. By 1935 the upper floors were no longer lived in. The poultry dealer George F. Hinrichs, Inc., rented space from 1927 until the 1940s.
- 1947
Astor descendants sell to butcher Bernard Monath, who later links the building to its neighbor for cold storage
In 1947 the Astor descendants sold the property to a realty company run by Bernard Monath, a wholesale butcher who owned Monath Beef & Provision Corp. In 1956-57 the two top stories became offices, and the lower levels were connected to No. 442 next door, also owned by Monath, as a cold storage warehouse. A succession of meatpacking firms rented it afterward.
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