54 Bleecker Street

also 330 Lafayette Street | NoHo | built 1896

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  1. 1896

    J.B. Cole has George Keister design a Romanesque Revival warehouse at 54-56 Bleecker Street

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    The eight-story steel-frame warehouse was designed by George Keister for J.B. Cole and built in two stages between 1895 and 1897. The first section, three bays and twenty-five feet wide, rose in 1895-96 at 56 Bleecker Street, where warehouses and factories were replacing the old dwellings that lined the block.

    “…designed by George Keister and built in two stages between 1895 and 1897 for J.B. Cole…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1897

    Lafayette Street's extension takes the row house at 54 Bleecker Street, and the warehouse grows over it

    In 1897 the extension of Lafayette Street south of Great Jones Street led to the demolition of the row house at 54 Bleecker Street. Cole stretched his warehouse two bays east over the cleared corner, and the new front on Lafayette Street, sixteen bays long, repeated the original Bleecker Street facade.

    “…extended two bays to the east, replacing the row house occupying 54 Bleecker Street, which had been demolished that year when Lafayette Street was extended…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1980

    54 Bleecker Street goes from factory to condominiums in the 1980s

    By 1914 the Keister warehouse at Bleecker and Lafayette was working as a factory, and it kept that use for decades. In the 1980s the upper floors were converted to condominium apartments above a commercial first story.

    “By 1914, the building was in use as a factory, continuing in that usage until it was converted to condominium apartments…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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