90 Hudson Street
also 4 Leonard Street, 84 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 1882
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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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- 1881
Six older buildings, mostly converted houses, are cleared from the Hudson and Leonard corner for the Goelet warehouse
Before the Goelet warehouse went up in 1881-82, the corner lot held six smaller buildings, three of wood frame and three of masonry. The report says most of them were dwellings that had been converted to other uses. They were demolished to make room for the seven-story warehouse. These were earlier buildings on the site.
- 1882
The Goelet brothers erect a seven-story warehouse at Hudson and Leonard Streets, designed by Edward Hale Kendall
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Robert and Ogden Goelet, a socially prominent New York family, had the warehouse built in 1881-82. Edward Hale Kendall, trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, was the architect and Clarence F. True the builder, who later became a notable architect himself. It covers more than 115 feet on each of its two streets. Extensions followed in 1884-85, one east along Leonard Street and one south on Hudson Street that has since been demolished.
“The building was erected in 1881-82 by Clarence F. True, soon to become an influential architect in his own right, for Robert and Ogden Goelet…”
- 1979
A butter wholesaler once leases part of the Goelet warehouse; its upper floors turn residential around 1979
The Goelet family owned the building for many years and leased part of it to James Rowland & Company, a butter wholesaler. Around 1979 the upper floors were converted to apartments, and commercial tenants kept the ground floor.
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