100 Bridge Street Lofts

 production, Art Nouveau / Jugendstil (architecture), interesting place

Designed c. 1908 by Louis E. Jallade as a manufacturing building for the Thomson Meter Company. After Thomson’s death, this building was sold in 1927 to the New York Eskimo Pie Corp., a subsidiary of the parent firm, for the regional manufacture of the first American chocolate-covered ice cream bar (created in 1920). Eskimo Pie products were made here until 1966.

There are six different colored glazes on this building, illuminating the swags, lion’s heads, cartouches, leaves and other motifs. The corner cartouches with their signature “TM” for Thompson Meter, are especially fine, too bad some have been damaged over the years. It was designated a New York City landmark in 2004.

Today, the building is still in use by various small industries.

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