Towers Apartments
720 Greenwich Street | also 726 Greenwich Street | West Village | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1897
Attorney Edmund Coffin builds a seven-story warehouse for Sloane furniture storage
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Edmund Coffin, a lawyer married to Euphemia Sloane of the carpet and furnishings family, had architect Gilbert A. Schellenger design a seven-story brick warehouse at 726-736 Greenwich Street in 1897-98. A 1946 Times article said it first held furniture for W. & J. Sloane & Co. Most of Coffin's estate was stock in the family's Henry-William Co., left to his sons Henry Sloane Coffin, later president of Union Theological Seminary, and William Sloane Coffin, who led the Metropolitan Museum's trustees.
“…constructed in 1897-98 to the design of prolific architect Gilbert A. Schellenger for prominent attorney Edmund Coffin…”
- 1901
Henry T. Sloane puts up a ten-story warehouse beside his brother-in-law's
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James B. Baker designed the ten-story brick warehouse at 720-724 Greenwich Street in 1901-02 for Henry Thompson Sloane, one of four sons of the carpet merchant William Sloane. It stood next to the Coffin warehouse owned by his brother-in-law, and the pair may have originated as warehouses for the furniture of W. & J. Sloane & Co. Henry's family held the building until 1945.
“…constructed in 1901-02 to the design of architect James B. Baker for Henry Thompson Sloane (1845-1937)…”
- 1903
A rattan furniture maker moves into the warehouse after a fire wrecks its factory
Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Co., makers of rattan furniture, moved to 720-724 Greenwich Street in 1903, after a fire destroyed its Madison Street factory. Later tenants were mostly storage firms, among them Importers' Warehouse Co. (1912-17), Vandam Warehouse Co. (1920-26) and Gough & Semke, Inc. (1926-45).
- 1974
Two warehouses are joined and converted into the Towers Apartments
After Towers Warehouses, Inc. bought both neighboring warehouses in the mid-1940s, it combined them onto a single lot and operated them together. In 1974-76 architect David Krause converted the pair into the Towers Apartments at the corner of Greenwich and Charles Streets.
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