Ragus Tea & Coffee Company warehouse
73 Laight Street | also 401 Washington Street, 71 Laight Street | Tribeca | built 2015
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- 1850
A coal yard and a mahogany yard occupy the lot before the warehouse is built
Before Maynicke & Franke's warehouse rose in 1905, the site at Washington and Laight Streets held two industrial operations dating from the middle of the 19th century. One was a coal yard and the other a mahogany yard. The 1905 building replaced both.
“…was built on the site of two mid-nineteenth-century industrial operations -- a coal yard and a mahogany yard…”
- 1905
Patrick J. Kavanaugh's Ragus Tea & Coffee and Union Pacific Tea companies move into a new warehouse on Washington Street
The six-story warehouse at 401-411 Washington Street (also 71-77 Laight Street) was designed in 1905 by Maynicke & Franke for the Ragus Tea & Coffee Company. Patrick J. Kavanaugh headed both Ragus and the Union Pacific Tea Company, and the two firms were its first occupants. Their tea and coffee operations stayed through the 1910s, after which the James Butler Grocery Company took the space.
- 1945
Heller & Usdan and U.S. Cordage convert the Washington Street warehouse into a paper-cutting factory
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In 1945 the paper firm Heller & Usdan and the U.S. Cordage Company turned the former tea and coffee warehouse into a factory for cutting and processing paper. Their painted sign remained on the east wall when the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the building. By then Eagle Transfer Corporation was using it as a warehouse.
“Heller & Usdan Inc., Paper and U.S. Cordage Co., Inc." for whom the building was converted into a factory for paper cutting and processing in 1945…”
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