67 Gansevoort Street

West Village | built 1887

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.

1887
The Astor estate develops a French flats building on Gansevoort Street as the street is widened
The Astors had owned the Washington Street blockfront here since 1819, and in 1878 the lot passed to John Jacob Astor III. In 1887, when Gansevoort Street was widened, it was developed with a three-story neo-Grec French flats building designed by Bernard J. Schweitzer, and produce dealer Bernard Hughes became the first lessee. The 1890 census found two families in the building, headed by a driver, Thomas J. Dowling, and Mary Beckar.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1921
John Dupont & Co., egg and butter merchants, buys the building it had rented since at least 1912
After Bernard Hughes died in 1903 and William Waldorf Astor in 1919, the Astor family sold the building in 1920 to Mary Hughes. John Dupont & Co., wholesale egg and butter merchants and tenants since at least 1912, bought it in 1921 and renovated its commercial space and storefront the next year. The firm stayed until 1943, when the property was sold to the Fried family.
“The property was purchased in 1921 by John Dupont & Co., wholesale eggs and butter merchants, who had been tenants here since at least 1912.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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