50 Commerce Street (Commerce Inn)
75 Barrow Street | also 50 Commerce Street | West Village | built 1912
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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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- 1912
William H. Paine designs a narrow apartment building for St. John's Realty at 75 Barrow Street
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William H. Paine designed this six-story apartment building in 1912 for the St. John's Realty Company. It also carries the address 50 Commerce Street. The ground floor has segmental brick arches with stone keystones, made wide enough to hold shops if the owners wanted them. Triple windows on the upper floors sit between plain brick piers.
“…designed in 1912 by the architect William H. Paine for the St . John's Realty Company. The ground floor boasts a series of fine segmental brick arches…”
- 2016
Fifty opens at 50 Commerce Street, run by the landlord's son who grew up upstairs
In July 2016 a restaurant called Fifty opened in the ground-floor space at 50 Commerce Street, which had held a string of well-regarded restaurants. The most recent was chef Harold Moore's Commerce, which closed a year earlier after a dispute with the landlord. Alex Kingman, the landlord's son, took over; he had grown up above the space and cited its earlier tenants, Grange Hall and the Blue Mill Tavern.
Source: gothamist.com
- 2021
Commerce Inn opens at 50 Commerce Street after a speakeasy and four earlier restaurants
Restaurateurs Jody Williams and Rita Sodi opened Commerce Inn at 50 Commerce Street in December 2021, after signing the lease in 2019 and being delayed by the pandemic. Wikipedia says the space was built as a carriage house and later held a speakeasy, then the Blue Mill Tavern, Grange Hall, Commerce and Fifty, which closed in 2018. The restaurant draws on Shaker furniture and cooking.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 75 Barrow Street (aka 50 Commerce Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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