430 Greenwich Street

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7-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1884. Designed by Thomas R. Jackson as a warehouse, factory and workshop. The red brick facades are fairly utilitarian, enriched with detailing such as rock-faced granite elements at the segmental- and round-arched window heads and a corbelled brick and granite cornice. At the center of each facade is an iron fire escape with wide basket-style landings. At the ground floor, dark green-painted cast-iron piers, supporting a cornice, frame the openings. A larger pier on Greenwich Street corresponds with the placement of the brick partition wall which divides the building into northern and southern halves. A suspended metal awning cover a portion of the northern elevation.

On the south end, a 5-story extension was constructed at the same time, with the same design elements. The 1-story rear portion of the building housed the power plant for the original occupant's "Pearline" soap manufacturing operation in the adjacent 7-story building. In 1911 the wholesale grocery firm of the Birdsong Brothers leased the southern half of the building. The wholesale grocery firm of Meyer & Lange occupied the building from the 1910s to the 1940s; it was later a facility of the Port Warehouses operation whose signage remains on this building. It was converted to residential around the 1990s.