Block 631
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Lot: 1001-1002
Address: 708-712 Greenwich St.
N.B.: 195 - 3/9/1909
Completed: 1909
Architects: Moore and Laudsiedel
Original Owners: Teichman Engineering and Construction Co.
Original Use: Warehouse
1912 (Alt. #2210): extended 25 ft. north and raised to 6 stories from 4. 1978 (Alt. #107): with southern lot, converted into a multiple dwelling.
Lot: 1001-1002
Address: 704-706 Greenwich St.
N.B.: 682 - 11/11/1892
Completed: 1893
Architect: Julius Munckwirz
Original Owners: S. Adler and H. S. Herrman
Original Use: livery stable
1975 (Alt. #1000): converted into a disco. 1978 (Alt. #107): combined with northern lot into a multiple dwelling.
Lot: 1
Address: 277 W. 10th St.
N.B.: 784 - 6/22/1894
Completed: 1896
Architect: Martin V. B. Ferdon
Original Owner: James Everard
Original Use: warehouse
Built in 1894, this mighty Romanesque structure forms, along with the Tower Warehouse and the Archives Building, an imposing triumvirate of industrial structures in the Far West Village. Carefully converted to apartments thirty years ago, this and other industrial buildings remained the most visually prominent structures in the Far West Village until the recent arrival of high-rise towers in the area. 1974 (Alt. #303): converted into multiple dwelling and named Shepard House.
(l. to r.) 273, 271, and 269 West 10th Street
Lot: 27
Address: 273 W. 10th St.
N.B.: 686 - 11/14/1878
Completed: 1879
Architect: Robert Mook
Original Owner: Walter Wood
Original Use: multiple dwelling
Except for minor modifications to the doorway, a nearly perfectly intact 1879 tenement façade. 1928 (Alt. #1943): Center doorway shortened, interior partitions erected and relocated, installation of new doors and plumbing.
Lot: 26
Address: 271 W. 10th St.
N.B.: 771- 12/29/1910
Completed: 1911
Architect: Charles H. Richter
Original Owner: David Nangle
Original Use: stable with dwelling above
1967 (Alt. #1053): converted into garage with offices above. 1976 (Alt. #522): altered to multiple dwelling with 1-car garage. New windows and doors installed.
Lot 25
Address: 269 W. 10th Street
Completed: 1836
Original Owner: Hannah Jenkins
Original Use: Dwelling
The cornice has been removed and the façade faced with a brick veneer, but lintels and other details from the façade of this very early house remain intact.
Lot: 24
Address: 702 Greenwich Street
N.B.: 133 – 6/4/1937
Completed: 1937
Original Owner: 80-82 Carmine Street corp.
Original Use: Trucking, Storage, and garage
Lot: 18
Address: 714 Greenwich St.
N.B.: 1376 - 9/22/1888
Completed: 1889
Architect: Frederick Weber
Owner: Charles Kyritz
Original Use: multiple dwelling
1941 (Alt. #2935): stoop removed, present steps installed. Lintels may have been modified.
Lot: 17
Address: 128 Charles St. (also 716-718 Greenwich St.)
N.B.: 53 - 1/29/1881
Completed: 1881
Architect: William Jose
Original Owner: Frederick Steinle
Original Use: multiple dwelling with stores below
Charles St. storefront and fire-escapes are unusually decorative and are original. Greenwich St. storefront and fire-escapes have been modified. Unusual rounded, chamfered corner and stone streets sign at upper floor.
Building Name: Levi Springsteen House
Lot: 16
Address: 130 Charles St.
Completed: 1853
Original Owner: Levi Springsteen
Original Use: Dwelling
Originally a rooming house. 1927 (Alt. #65): converted to apartments. 1964 (Alt. #358): converted to single-family dwelling. 1981 (B.N. 1741): completely renovated. Unusual for its double-width façade and trapezoidal shape, conforming to unusual lot configuration – a reflection of the rhomboid blocks of the Far West Village.
Lot: 15
Address: 132 Charles St.
Completed: 1820
Original Owners: Paeter Parsells and Matthew Armstrong
Original Use: Dwelling
Oldest surviving structure in the waterfront area; one of few remaining woodframe houses in Manhattan. Façade stuccoed.
Lot: 13
Address: 134-136 Charles St.
N.B.: 647 - 10/18/1911
Completed: 1912
Architects: Van Vleck and Goldsmith
Original Owners: American Railway Supply Co.
Original Use: Factory
1948 (Alt. #1190): "made 'uniformly two stories and cellar.'" 1965 (Alt. #663): converted into an art gallery. Third story added ca. 1988.