John Morrell & Co. Building

446 West 14th Street | West Village | built 1937

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.

1937
Meatpacker John Morrell & Co. builds a limestone Moderne market building at 446 West 14th Street
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John Morrell & Co. built this limestone building in 1936-37, one of the new market buildings of the 1930s, when the Gansevoort Market district was redeveloped because of the elevated Miller Highway and the New York Central's elevated freight line. The architect was H. Peter Henschien, a Norwegian-born packinghouse specialist based in Chicago, while the Brooklyn architect Axel S. Hedman may only have filed the plans or supervised. The name MORRELL once ran across the top story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1951
Morrell sells the building to meatpacker Abraham Woursell, whose firm keeps it for four decades
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John Morrell & Co., which says it was founded in England in 1827, stayed in the building until 1951, when it was sold to Abraham Woursell, also a meatpacker, whose company was A. Woursell, Inc. Woursell's firm, later called Woursell Meats, held the property until 1990, and the Dubuque Packing Co. is listed as a tenant between 1975 and 1980. A realty company named for the address took ownership in 1990.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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