460 Greenwich Street

Tribeca | built 1897

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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. 1897

    Jacob Gumperz, a coffee-firm partner, has a five-story loft built at 460 Greenwich

    Franklin Baylies designed this five-story building in 1897 for Jacob Gumperz, one of the original partners in Samuel Crooks & Company, an importer of coffee, tea and spices. It was the third of four buildings the firm put up on the block, each echoing the 1892 design of No. 464. The site had previously held a wood-framed dwelling.

    “…designed in 1897 by Franklin Baylies for Jacob Gumperz, a partner in the Samuel Crooks & Company wholesale tea and coffee business…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1905

    Gumperz retires to Germany and a wholesale grocer uses the building as a warehouse

    Jacob Gumperz, who had helped found the Crooks coffee firm in 1890 and first worked from 13 Harrison Street, left the business in 1905 and returned to his native Germany. Around the same time the August F. Beckmann wholesale grocery company used the building as a warehouse.

    “Gumperz retired from the firm in 1905 and returned to his native Germany. Around that time the August F. Beckmann wholesale grocery firm used the building as a warehouse.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1946

    Nos. 458 and 460 Greenwich are joined inside under one owner

    In the 1940s and 1950s this building and its neighbor at 458 Greenwich Street belonged to the Campbell Wood Products Company of Brunswick, Maine. The company had the two buildings connected internally in 1946. The upper floors of No. 460 are now residential.

    “In the 1940s and 1950s this building and 458 Greenwich Street were owned by the Campbell Wood Products Company of Brunswick, Maine. In 1946 the two buildings were joined internally.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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