American Express Company Stables
46 Trinity Place | also 85 Greenwich Street | Financial District | built 1900
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- 1880
Two old houses at 46 and 48 Trinity Place are replaced by an American Express stable
As late as 1875 the lot held a two-story house at No. 46 Trinity Place and, next door at No. 48, a three-and-a-half-story brick house converted from a residence. Around 1880 both came down, and a brick stable three stories tall went up for the American Express Company, which ran through the block to Greenwich Street.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1889
A robbed young man is found dazed in the Greenwich Street doorway and dies of opium poisoning
At 5:30 on the morning of September 19, 1889, Policeman Thomas E. Coghlan found a well-dressed man of about 30 lying dazed in the stable's Greenwich Street doorway. He had nothing on him, and the Evening World guessed he had been drugged in a dive, robbed and turned out. He died that afternoon in a hospital of opium poisoning.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1906
C. G. Clark adds two floors to the stable and a pseudo tower with a terra cotta bulldog
American Express leased the stable from the estate of Elizabeth S. Hay, and in 1906 the owners hired C. G. Clark to add two floors for $50,000. He matched the original Romanesque Revival brickwork closely, raised the entrance bay into a pseudo tower with a large terra cotta bulldog logo, and finished the roofline with crenellations instead of a cornice.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1908
United States Express buys the stable, then sells it to Adams Express before the year is out
In 1908 the United States Express Co., which had built its 23-story headquarters nearby in 1906, bought 46-48 Trinity Place, and the Record & Guide reported American Express planned to change its home. American Express stayed at 65 Broadway, and by year's end the building had been sold to Adams Express. A 1910 plan for a ten-story office building there died, and Adams kept it until 1921.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1984
A vegetarian restaurant run by Seventh-Day Adventists serves grains and holds Bible study classes on the ground floor
By the 1980s the ground floor housed Country Life, run by a group of about twenty Seventh-Day Adventists. Vegetarian Times described the dark wooden tables, the female staff in long calico dresses, and a menu built on grains, fruits and vegetables, with classes in cooking, nutrition, stress management and Bible study. Scallions, a vegan buffet, replaced it in the early 1990s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The American Express Company Stables - 46-48 Trinity PlaceDaytonian in Manhattan
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