71 Hudson Street
also 3 Staple Street | Tribeca | built 1880
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- 1880
Amzi Hill copies No. 73 for 71 Hudson Street, and a Flemish gable follows in 1896
David Martin hired architect Amzi Hill in 1880 to build a five-story Italianate loft that duplicated its older neighbor at 73 Hudson Street. In 1896 Dehli, Chamberlin & Howard added two stories for the New York Condensed Milk Company, topped by a curving Flemish Revival gable with urns. The building runs through the block to Staple Street.
- 1889
New York Condensed Milk Company buys 71 Hudson Street as a milk warehouse
In 1889 the New York Condensed Milk Company bought the building to store its product and that of the related Borden Condensed Milk Company. The business, which began with Gail Borden's condensed milk in Connecticut, was succeeded by Borden Condensed Milk in 1899. By 1902 the Borden company was buying the American operations of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, and it was supplying the Navy.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1906
Wine merchant Henry Speckel, missing since November, is found in the Hudson River
In 1905 the building held James M. Bell Company, wine importers, where Gustave Speckel was vice-president and his 28-year-old son Henry was secretary. After typhoid fever left Henry depressed, he left home on November 20 and did not return. His father offered a $250 reward, but the New-York Tribune reported on May 8, 1906 that his body had been found in the river near Spuyten Duyvil.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1931
Three-alarm fire at the condensed milk building leaves a fire captain paralyzed
By the 1930s Carnation Milk Products held the upper floors and the Mohawk Condensed Milk Company the first three. On August 21, 1931 a three-alarm fire kept firemen working for two hours. Directing his men, Augustine O'Connor, a captain with Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, suffered a stroke and was reported paralyzed at Beekman Street Hospital. In 1937 Joseph J. Herold Jr. bought the building for $23,000, less than half the cost of the fire repairs.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1989
John F. Kennedy Jr. lives in a sub-leased loft at 71 Hudson Street
The building was converted in 1984 to loft residences, one enormous apartment per floor, after years as a milk warehouse. According to Daytonian in Manhattan, John F. Kennedy Jr. was subletting an apartment here in August 1989.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- An 1896 Makeover -- No. 71 Hudson StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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