14 Harrison Street

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6-story Neo-Grec/Romanesque-revival cooperative-apartment building completed in 1882. Designed by George W. DaCunha as a store-and-loft building, it has a ground floor with green cast-iron piers, most topped by ornate capitals. A sheet-metal cornice crowns the base and the historic fixed metal awning is still extant. The four floors above the base are linked by red brick piers which form a round-arched arcade. The arcade is accentuated by hood moldings and diaper work below the cornice, details characteristic of the Romanesque-revival style. The stone trim of the sills, lintels, pier bands and capitals evokes the linear quality of neo- Grec designs. The black-painted, sheet-metal cornice roof has had small windows pierced in it between the double brackets.

Four years after moving to 14-16 Harrison, in 1886, the owner Henry Heide took a lease on the neighboring building at 18 Harrison Street and internally joined the two. By 1888, Heide had another building constructed, behind this one, at 179 Franklin Street. A 1909 alteration to 14-16 Harrison Street extended the building to the rear so that this structure could be joined to that behind it. By that time Heide had moved his candy factory further north and this complex of buildings was converted for use as a cold storage warehouse

Heide sold the building to a realty company in 1916 which leased the premises to the Merchants' Refrigerating Company and later the Harrison Cold Storage Company. Later lessees included the Consolidated Cold Storage Corporation and the West Side Cold Storage Company. The building was converted to residential in the 1980s.