Carriage House Lofts

457 West 150th Street | Sugar Hill | built 1926

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1896

    January 3

    Henri Fouchaux designs a livery stable for Frederick Esper

    Frederick Esper, a principal of the National Beef Company, files plans by architect Henri Fouchaux for a four-story brick livery stable on a lot he bought in 1891. The $15,000 building has a row of big arched openings along the ground floor. Two sculpted horses' heads set in roundels flank the central carriage bay.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1905

    Joseph Balmford renames the stable Speedway Livery & Boarding Stables

    Joseph M. Balmford takes over the stable's lease and renames it the Speedway Livery & Boarding Stables, after the nearby Harlem River Speedway, a roadway established in 1893 for riders and carriages. Well-off Sugar Hill residents keep pricey horses here, among them sport trotters.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1912

    June 19

    The stable becomes the Convent Garage Company

    After an April 1910 auction closes out the Speedway Stables, owner Frederick Dannemann's family firm, F. Dannemann & Son, begins converting the stable into a garage. The Convent Garage Company is incorporated in 1912 and offers long-term vehicle storage, repairs, and fueling, and by 1915 sells Socony gasoline. The building remains a garage into the 2010s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2018

    CH 150 Holdings buys the garage for $6.3 million

    CH 150 Holdings pays $6.3 million for the building, buying it from the West 150 Street Operating LLC, when it was run as a parking garage. The developers quickly rename it The Carriage House and plan to convert it to residential use. The building has no landmark protection.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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