60 Beach Street

also 48 Beach Street | Tribeca | built 1905

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1905
Charles C. Haight designs a 151-foot-wide warehouse on Beach Street in place of seven dwellings
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In 1905 architect Charles C. Haight designed this six-story warehouse, built by the A. J. Robinson Co., to replace seven three-story dwellings. His neo-Renaissance design stresses a long flat wall of red brick above a base of massive rounded arches on granite bases that frame wide loading bays. Haight designed three other buildings on the block for the same client.
“The building was designed in 1905 by Charles C. Haight, who designed three other buildings on this block for the same client…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
The Protestant Episcopal Society leases its new Beach Street warehouse to the Varick Warehouse Company
The owner was the Protestant Episcopal Society, a body that worked to promote religion and learning in New York State, and it negotiated a long-term lease with the Varick Warehouse Company at the time of construction. The building was used mainly as a general merchandise warehouse, and a later tenant was Coastwise Warehouses, Inc.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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