Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base

850 3rd Avenue | also 20 30th Street, 509 2nd Avenue, 110 30th Street | Sunset Park | built 1920

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1917
Turner Construction builds an eight-story concrete storehouse for the Navy's World War I supply base
Storehouse No. 2 went up in 1917 as part of the U.S. Navy Fleet supply base in Sunset Park, built during World War I by Turner Construction. It is an eight-story reinforced-concrete warehouse in the Classical Revival style, and it fills the whole block between Second and Third Avenues and 30th and 31st Streets.
Source: Wikipedia
2013
The storehouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In 2013 the former Navy storehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing covers the Classical Revival warehouse that Turner Construction built in 1917 for the Navy's fleet supply base in Sunset Park, which fills a full city block between Second and Third Avenues and 30th and 31st Streets.
“It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.”
Source: Wikipedia

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