American Bank Note Company garage

938 Garrison Avenue | also 851 Barretto Street, 1201 Lafayette Avenue | Hunts Point | built 1910

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1910
Kirby, Petit & Green add a garage to the American Bank Note Company's new Bronx plant
While the security printer was building its Hunts Point plant, the same architects, Kirby, Petit & Green, designed a garage for the site in 1910, placed where Garrison Avenue meets Barretto Street and styled to match the main buildings. The plant itself, finished in 1911, housed engraved currency and steel plate divisions that turned out stock certificates, bonds and postage stamps, while a typographic division printed catalogues, maps and railroad tickets.
“A garage, designed by Kirby, Petit & Green, was built in a complementary design in 1910 at the corner of Garrison Avenue and Barretto Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
The American Bank Note Company nearly doubles its garage and uses the space to make ink
In 1928 the company almost doubled the size of its 1910 garage at Garrison Avenue and Barretto Street and put the added space to work making ink. The expansion came the same year architect Oscar P. Cadmus raised the plant's neighboring Barretto Street wing, first built in 1912 for a laundry and pulp mill, to three stories.
“In 1928, the garage was nearly doubled in size and the additional space was used for ink production.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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