817 Washington Street

also 71 Gansevoort Street, 821 Washington Street, 73 Gansevoort Street | West Village | built 1887

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1. 1887

   Astor builds three Queen Anne French flats with stores at Washington and Gansevoort Streets

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   John Jacob Astor III had this corner built up in 1886-87 as three French flats buildings with ground-floor stores, designed by James W. Cole. The Astor family had owned the whole Washington Street blockfront since 1819. The first commercial tenants were produce and liquor dealers.

   “It was developed in 1886-87 with three French flats buildings with stores. Commercial tenants were produce and liquor dealers.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1923

   A holding company pays $700,000 for the Astor properties here and plans a ten-story refrigerated market

   After William Waldorf Astor died in 1919, his family sold this property in 1923 to the Fox-Gelberg Holding Co. along with neighboring lots for $700,000. The New York Times reported that the company wanted to put up a ten-story concrete building with a full refrigerating plant, offices and stores for produce associations and meat packers. The project never went forward, and the properties went to Dennis P. Kennedy after foreclosure in 1938.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1940

   Five stories come off the flats to make a three-story meat market, home to Schuster & Schwab for decades

   Kennedy announced in 1938 that his buildings would get refrigeration for wholesale meat and poultry dealers, and in 1940 the three flats were joined and cut down to three stories with metal canopies and a new cornice. He lost them to foreclosure in 1944. Schuster & Schwab, later Schuster Meat Corp., rented space here from the 1940s through the 1990s.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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