185 Christopher Street

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / Christopher Street, 185
 bar, apartment building
3-story Italianate residential building originally completed in 1837 as a warehouse. In 1871 it was sold and extended at the rear by architect William E. Waring, and received a uniform bracketed cornice, cast-iron molded lintels and corbeled sills, and a projecting storefront that partially wrapped around the corner. It was converted into a tenement for six families with a ground-story store. Commercial tenants for the next 50 years, until Prohibition, were liquors/ saloon businesses.

After 1912, the building was owned by the O'Neil family, and known as O'Neil's Hotel. It was altered in 1927 for a repair shop, office and storage for Ray Electric Co., marine electrical contractors, who remained here until 1944. In 1956, the cornice was removed and the ground story altered.

In 1961, the building was purchased by William R. and Edith F. Anderson, who converted the lower two stories for the use of R. Anderson & Son Corp., general contractors; two apartments were located on the third story. The property passed in 1978 to 185 Christopher Street Corp., which converted it in 1980 into a restaurant/ bar with upstairs apartments. The ground floor housed The Dugout, a gar bar, from 1985-2005. It is currently occupied by Rockbar NYC.
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Coordinates:   40°43'57"N   74°0'34"W

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  • Now it's called RAMROD.
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