RH Guest House

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5-story hotel completed in 1887 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Joseph M. Dunn, the building was constructed at the time of the widening of Gansevoort Street. Its unusual shape, an acute triangle, comes from the odd plan of the lot. It is clad in brown brick with stone sills and lintels above a ground-floor cast-iron storefront.

E.S. Burnham Packing Co., canned goods and, later, druggist sundries, remained in this location until around 1929. Faded painted signs still existing on this building advertised Burnham and other tenants. Many of the tenants after the mid-1950s were meatpackers. Toward the end of the century, the upper floors were converted to apartments, and a nightclub opened on the ground floor. The building was renovated into RH Guesthouse, opening in 2022.