The Shephard

1896 storage warehouse, converted, 38 residences across 12 floors.

275 West 10th Street, 10014

The Shephard was built in 1896 as the Everard Storage Warehouse, designed by Martin V. B. Ferdon, twelve storeys of red brick in a Romanesque revival manner. It was converted to 38 residences by Beyer Blinder Belle.

The conversion produced more than twenty five different layouts across those 38 apartments, which is the first fact to take from it. This is a warehouse plan adapted rather than a residential plan repeated, so no two floors work alike and a detail drawn for one apartment is a drawing for that apartment.

The interiors keep barrel vaulted ceilings and oversized arched windows from the warehouse fabric. A vaulted ceiling changes what can be done overhead: lighting cannot be laid out on a flat plane, a recessed fitting has a curved soffit to sit in, and anything tall placed against a wall meets the vault before it meets a ceiling line. The arched heads to the windows have the same effect at the perimeter that they do at 130 William, and for the same reason.

Within walking distance

Building facts

New York City Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output, version 26v1. Tax lot 1006317503.