135 Hudson Street (New York City, New York)

 warehouse, apartment building

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6-story residential building erected as a warehouse in 1887. Designed by Kimball & Ihnen, it is clad in reddish-brown brick. At the base Romanesque-inspired segmental arches and piers frame the bays. The fenestration, in addition to indicating the location of the elevator shaft at the western end of the building, changes to narrower paired windows at the 4th floor and to two windows in each bay on the top two stories.

In 1890 the warehouse was occupied by the Charles H. O'Neill & Company firm which supplied millwork it shipped from the Midwest. The liquor merchants H. & H. Sonn acquired the building in 1899 and sold it the next year to Mariette Wilsey who leased the building to the firm of Cornell & Underbill, machinery and pipe suppliers. In 1909 Augustus Beckstein, a principal in the Beckstein family's real estate development and meat packing firms, acquired the property and leased it to the baking supplies firm of Crandall Pettee Company. It was partially converted to residential use in the late 1900s.