91 Horatio Street

also 521 West Street | West Village | built 1930

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

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1899
Former mayor Hugh J. Grant builds two Romanesque Revival warehouses on Horatio Street
George P. Chappell designed the pair of six-story brick and stone warehouses at 97-103 Horatio Street in 1899-1900 for Hugh J. Grant, a former mayor of New York. They were the only buildings on the block that the Manhattan Refrigerating Company neither leased nor owned, although Grant's estate later also owned 90-92 Gansevoort Street, which the company leased. The early tenants were two printing and lithography firms.
“These two warehouse buildings, constructed for former Mayor Hugh J. Grant, were the only ones on the block not leased or owned by the Manhattan Refrigerating Co.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1941
Carey Printing, tenant since 1916, goes bankrupt and the Horatio Street warehouses are foreclosed
The printing house Peter J. Carey & Son (also trading as Carey Printing) had rented space in the Grant warehouses at 97-103 Horatio Street since 1916, doing printing, lithography and publishing. It failed in 1941, and a foreclosure on the property followed in 1942. Later tenants worked in wood, paper, printing, meat, poultry and produce; Federal Lithography had been an earlier tenant, from 1906 to 1910.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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