799 Washington Street
West Village | built 1910
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1910
A corporate lawyer finances a six-story warehouse at Washington and Horatio Streets
In 1910 George A. MacDonald, a lawyer with large real estate holdings in lower Manhattan, sold this lot to the Newtown Construction Co. so it could build a warehouse that he would finance. Joseph C. Cocker designed the six-story neo-Georgian brick building. MacDonald financed a number of other Greenwich Village projects, and the Mutual Warehouse Co. was the building's first tenant, from 1910 to 1934.
“In 1910, George A. MacDonald sold this lot to the Newtown Construction Co. for the construction of a warehouse building, which he was to finance.”
- 1914
MacDonald trades his warehouse for several Upper East Side houses, then buys it back
MacDonald acquired the warehouse in 1912, two years after it was finished, but in 1914 he traded it to Robert Weber in exchange for several houses on the Upper East Side. His Hursley Real Estate Co., of which he was president, bought it again in 1915. The MacDonald family kept an interest in the property until a bank foreclosed in 1934, and the Mutual Warehouse Co., of which he was also president, had leased it from the start.
“MacDonald acquired this building two years after its completion, but traded it to Robert Weber in 1914 for several Upper East Side houses.”
- 1963
A marine supplies firm buys the warehouse, and offices take over in 1997
Fannie Rolins bought the building in 1963 for the Rolins Co., a marine supplies business, and an affiliated firm called Recreational Sporting Equipment, Inc. Before then, transfer, express and trucking companies had been tenants until 1942, when Criterion Paper Corp. and affiliated container makers took over. In 1997-99 the structure was converted to offices.
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