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Mink Building
The Mink Building, located at 1361 Amsterdam Avenue between 126th and 128th Streets, is a five-story red brick structure in the Harlem/Manhattanville neighborhood of New York City. Towering over most of its neighbors, it is recognizable because of its historical German-American style. The Mink Building was built in 1905 as the main building for the Bernheimer and Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Company. It was their purpose to create a building that also served as a symbol for their business, and though their business is long gone, the building continues to broadcast its presence in the area. The Mink Building has undergone multiple transformations in use, although not form, over the last century. Its nickname comes from its use in the 1950s as a storage facility for fur coats, although it is now a mixed-use facility with few tenants. The Mink Building is currently playing an important role in efforts to revitalize business and commerce in Harlem. The real estate agency of Cushman and Wakefield along with the owner, the Janus Property Company, are pushing to lease more of the to new tenants to achieve this goal.
==History==
The Mink Building was originally known as the Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Company. The brewers chose the site of the former Yuengling Brewery, widely recognized as the oldest brewery in America, which was founded in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in 1829.〔http://www.yuengling.com/〕 The Yuengling Brewery opened in this New York City location in 1876, when there was plenty of land to use in this part of Manhattan. The brewery included a stable with room for one hundred horses, a swimming pool, and large lofts for entertaining. David Yuengling’s Brewery enjoyed initial success, and an 1885 article in the New York Times gave the plant a rave review. It was not long, however, before Yuengling’s management decided to consolidate the company in Pennsylvania and sold the Manhattanville site to the Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Company in 1903.
After the purchase of the site, it would be two years before the new Bernheimer & Schwartz Pilsener brewery was completed with all new buildings. The brewery was originally a complex of buildings; the five-story red brick structure taking up most of the block at West 126th Street and Amsterdam Avenue was the main building. The brewery was extremely successful, making owner Simon Bernheimer one of the richest men in New York (his partner Anton Schwartz committed suicide in 1910). Unfortunately, Bernheimer died a sudden death in 1911. His death was attributed to apoplexy; he was thought to have been overexcited at the opportunity to finally achieve his lifelong dream of playing the bass drum with his favorite band, the Mecca Temple Band. The band belonged to the Masonic Order of which Bernheimer was a member.〔"Rich Brewer Dies at the Big Drum." The New York Times. 26 July 1911〕
The brewery remained open until Prohibition in 1920, when the complex of buildings fell into disuse. The Horton Pilsener Brewing Company bought the company just before Prohibition and had to find other means of staying in business, so the buildings remained in disuse until the Interborough Fur Storage Company bought them sometime around 1930.〔White-Orr’s 1930 Classified Business Directory – New York City Section〕 When Prohibition ended in 1933, Horton Pilsener reopened the brewery in a new location and ran it until 1941, when they went out of business.〔()〕 It wasn’t until the 1940s that the use of the building as a summer storage space for furs became well known and popular. It hence gained the name “Mink Building” that it still bears today.
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