Carter's Review

This imposing, 12-story, red-brick, Romanesque-revival style building was erected in 1896 as the Everard Storage Warehouse and designed by Martin V. B. Ferdon for James Everard, who built one of the country’s largest brewing concerns and was also the owner of Everard’s Turkish Baths are 28 West 28^th Street.

In 1929, the building became the Shephard Warehouse and in the 1970s it was converted by Rockrose into the Shepherd Warehouse apartment building with 145 rental units.  Rockrose did other residential projects in the area included the former Federal Archives Building at 666 Greenwich Street in 1988, 100 Jane Street in 1996 and, later, 99 Jane Street.

In 2014, the building was acquired from Vill-Shephard Equities Inc., for $68.2 million by the Starwood Capital Group, which is headed by Barry Sternlicht and it was then converted with The Naftali Group to 38 residential condominiums.

Beyer Blinder Belle was the architect for the conversion.  Gachot was the interior designer for the conversion.

Bottom Line

One of the taller buildings in the West Village, this very handsome, 12-story, former Romanesque-revival warehouse had 145 rental apartments since the 1970s and has been converted by the Starwood Capital Group and the Naftali Group into 42 condominium apartments. 

Description

The Shepard's base has a rock-faced, two-story granite base that rises to four stories at the corners and the mid-section of the building has brick pilasters that start above a thin bandcourse above the fourth floor and terminate in large arches divided into three windows at the 10^th floor. 

Alternate floors also have arched windows.

The building has a bracketed pressed metal cornice, a portion which at Washington Street has been removed.  It was visible in a 1970 photograph.

The red-brick building has a windowless rounded corner and the first floor originally had loading docks that were replaced with windows with metal grilles.

The building has a 6-step-up garden with large multi-paned doors.

The building has sidewalk landscaping on either side of its large multi-paned glass entrance.

Amenities

The building has a full-time doorman, basketball court, a golf similator, a paneled library, a garden, live-in superintendent, a gym, storage and permits pets.

Apartments

Apartments have barrel-vaulted ceilings and some master bathrooms have very large mirrors on the wall behind the bathtubs and across from the two vanity stations.

According to a June 14, 2014 article by Jessica Dailey at ny.curbed.com, the building will have “duplexes on the cellar and first floors, and three units per floor on the 2^nd through the 11^th stories” and a duplex is planned for the top floors includig a roof top terrace.

Apartment 10A is a four-bedroom unit with 3,701 square feet, a large, angled foyer that leads to a 27-foot-long living room that is adjacent to a 16-foot-long den that is next to the 20-foot-long, open kitchen with an island and an angled, 9-foot-long pantry,.

Apartment 6A is a four-bedroom unit with an entry foyer that leads to an angled, 26-foot-long living/dining room with an open, 16-footwide kitchen with an island next to a 9-foot-long corner den.

Apartment 8B is a two-bedroom unit with a 16-foot-long, angled entry foyer that leads to a 26-foot-long living room that opens onto a 15-foot-long dining room next to a 15-foot-wide open kitchen with an island.  The unit also has a 15-foot-wide den.

Apartment 7D is a two-bedroom unit with an angled, 6-foot-wide entry foyer that leads to a 22-foot-wide living room and a 23-foot-wide dinining room next to a 16-foot-wide pass-through kitchen with a 6-foot-long, angled pantry.