829 Washington Street
West Village | built 1880
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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.
- 1880
Contractor Michael Reid builds the 1880 market buildings, then goes on to construct the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Michael Reid, born around 1832, was the builder-contractor of the 823 to 829 Washington Street market buildings of 1880, according to the city's records. He later formed the M. Reid Co., whose work included the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, an addition to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and eleven Carnegie libraries. Reid died in 1918.
- 1938
Dennis P. Kennedy takes the blockfront in a foreclosure and promises refrigeration for meat and poultry dealers
In 1938 meat dealer Dennis P. Kennedy acquired the Astor-era market buildings on this stretch of Washington Street after a foreclosure. He announced that they would be modernized with refrigeration for wholesale meat and poultry dealers, since the Gansevoort market district badly needed such space. The buildings were altered and linked with 32-36 Little West 12th Street in 1940, but Kennedy lost them to foreclosure in 1944.
Nearby
- 831 Washington Street1 entry
- 825 Washington Street2 entries
- 833 Washington Street1 entry
- 823 Washington Street2 entries
- 36 Little West 12th Street2 entries
- 32 Little West 12th Street3 entries