692 Greenwich Street

West Village | built 1869

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1868
David and William Millemann build a five-story pork-packing plant at 692 Greenwich Street, then go bankrupt
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The brick factory, with round-arched windows and a smokehouse at the rear, was built in 1868-69 for provisions dealers David and William H. Millemann. They were declared bankrupt in 1870. In 1872 David, a director of the West Side Bank, was indicted over barrels of pork he allegedly obtained fraudulently in the months before the bankruptcy. Charles White, a hog butcher, had bought the building the year before.
“David Millemann, a director of the West Side Bank, was indicted in 1872…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1985
692 Greenwich Street goes from loft building to apartments, and its arched windows are enlarged
Tenants over the decades included the Blanke Coffee Co. about 1908-09, the Kelsey-Risden glue and paper firm from 1928 to 1945, The Padded Wagon from 1965 to 1976, and a theater called Play Factor in 1978. After 692 Greenwich St., Inc. bought the building in 1984, it was converted to apartments in 1985, and architect Neil Robert Berzak cut larger square windows into each upper story in place of the old arched ones.
“The building was acquired in 1984 by 692 Greenwich St., Inc., which converted it into an apartment building in 1985…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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