825 Washington Street
also 32 Little West 12th Street | West Village | built 1920
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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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- 1880
Joseph M. Dunn designs four neo-Grec market buildings on the Astor family's Washington Street blockfront
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Four brick market buildings at 823 to 829 Washington Street, this one among them, went up in 1880 to designs by Joseph M. Dunn. The land belonged to the Astor family, and the early tenants were mostly produce dealers. The landmarks commission counts them among seven buildings by Dunn in the Gansevoort Market district.
- 1923
Fox-Gelberg buys the Astor blockfront for $700,000 and plans a ten-story refrigerated produce building that never rises
After the Astor family sold its Washington Street holdings in 1923, the Fox-Gelberg Holding Co. bought this blockfront and its neighbors for $700,000. The New York Times reported that the firm planned a ten-story concrete building, with a refrigerating plant, offices and stores for fruit growers, produce dealers and meat packers. The project was dropped, and the properties passed to others after foreclosure in 1938.
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- 823 Washington Street2 entries
- 829 Washington Street2 entries
- 831 Washington Street1 entry
- 817 Washington Street3 entries
- 36 Little West 12th Street2 entries
- 32 Little West 12th Street3 entries