838 Greenwich Street
West Village | built 1981
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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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- 1872
Wealthy horse dealer Isaac H. Dahlman builds a boarding stable on Greenwich Street
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The building at 838-840 Greenwich Street began in 1872-73 as a boarding stable for Isaac H. Dahlman, a rich horse dealer who also invested in real estate. Dahlman went bankrupt in 1896, and in 1897 the property passed to the Oriental Bank in a foreclosure. The brick facade seen today dates only from a 1980-81 alteration.
- 1903
Shipping broker George D. Kuper buys the former stable and uses it for storage until 1930
George D. Kuper (c. 1850-1932) headed G. D. Kuper & Bros., a brokerage for shipping, freight lighterage and trucking, and acquired the foreclosed stable in 1903. For his firm it served as stabling and storage until 1930, when it was converted into a factory and rented to the Atlas Safety Lock Company, later the Atlantic Steel Partition Company. The Kuper family kept the property until it was foreclosed in 1936.
“It was acquired in 1903 by George D. Kuper (c. 1850-1932), head of the ship, freight lighterage, and trucking brokerage firm, G.D. Kuper & Bros.”
- 1980
Architect Seymour Churgin gives the former Holland Beef building a new facade as an apartment house
Seymour Churgin's 1980-81 alteration gave the building a new brick facade and turned it into a four-story apartment house, the second-to-last new construction in the district. In 1939 the property went to a holding company of the Phillips Produce Company, which fitted it with refrigeration for produce and food and also rented it to printing firms. Holland Bros. Realty and Holland Beef Corp., already a tenant, bought it in 1967 for meatpacking but lost it to foreclosure in 1977.
“…received a new facade during its alteration to an apartment building in 1980-81, making it the second-to-the last new construction within the district…”
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