Maltz-Franklin Building
99 Hudson Street | also 93 Hudson Street | Tribeca | built 1930
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- 1929
Hartung Brothers' and Markwell Manufacturing's loft building is cleared for the Maltz-Franklin Building
The Maltz-Franklin Building replaced three older buildings: a converted four-story rowhouse, a six-story brick Romanesque Revival store and loft building, and a five-story brick store and loft with a restaurant on the first floor. Hartung Brothers and the Markwell Manufacturing Company had occupied the six-story one. The new building was filed in 1929. These were earlier buildings on the site.
- 1930
M. Maltz & Company builds the sixteen-story Art Deco Maltz-Franklin Building on land owned by an Episcopal society
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The sixteen-story building at 93-101 Hudson Street went up in 1930 as a speculative project of Maltz Building No. 6, Inc., part of the development firm M. Maltz & Company. Victor Mayper designed it. The land belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learning, which owned many sites in the northern part of the historic district. The lot is about 101 feet on Hudson Street and 99 feet on Franklin Street.
“…it was built in 1930 as a speculative project by Maltz Building No. 6, Inc., a branch of the development firm M. Maltz & Company.”
- 1930
The Bowery Savings Bank and food merchants occupy the Maltz-Franklin Building
Over the years the building at 93-101 Hudson Street housed the Bowery Savings Bank and many companies in the food trade, among them merchants of candy, fruit and fish. The building is commonly called the Maltz-Franklin Building.
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