465 Greenwich Street (New York City, New York)

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6-story Romanesque-revival residential building completed in 1885. Designed by George W. DaCunha as a warehouse, it was erected in six units—three thirty-three-foot wide sections fronting Desbrosses Street and three narrower sections perpendicular to Greenwich Street. The Romanesque-revival design reflects this inner structure with pilasters dividing the red brick facades into 4-bay wide sections. The facades are further articulated by granite sill courses and corbelled brick courses, and there is scored ornamental brick banding at the 2nd floor. Flush brick elements form the flat, segmental, and round-arched heads of the window openings. The facade is terminated by a brick and granite roof cornice.

At the ground floor, banded stone piers and unusual secondary cast-iron piers incorporating single and paired engaged colonnettes frame openings with a variety of storefront infill elements including paneled bulkheads, transoms with grilles, windows, and glazed wood doors. Portions of the Greenwich Street and Watts Street bases have brick walls with round-arched window openings. There are three black metal fire escapes on the southern facade, two on the west, and another on the north side.

Early tenants of the warehouse included the Harrel Soap Company, the Bernard-Greenwood Company, makers of wrought-iron pipes and fittings, and the National Spice Mills and the Archibald & Lewis Company. Later tenants included the Eastern Metal Spinning Company, the Lange Forewarding and Warehousing Company, and the Romanoff Caviar Company. The building was converted to residential in the late 1990s.