472 Greenwich Street

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7-story office/residential building completed in 1893. Designed by M.V.B. Ferdon as a warehouse, it is clad in red brick above a green-painted cast-iron ground floor. The three bays of windows have rough stone sills and lintels, although the northernmost bay has been bricked-up to serve as an elevator shaft. A black iron fire escape runs down the other two bays, and the facade is capped by a corbelled brick parapet.

Soon after completion it was used as the Worcestershire Sauce Factory. Space was eventually rented to the whiskey distillery of Kerln and Dunn, where an explosion occurred in 1907. In 1944, the building ended up in the hands of investors and changed hands several times. A hardware manufacturer bought it 1946. The building was converted to offices/cooperative-apartments around 1990.