Jane Street

Jane Street. . Sometime prior to 1817, Jane St. was laid out on land owned by the Jaynes family. The present spelling probably memorializes one Jane Gahn, who later owned property in the area., The oldest surviving building on the block is #111, all that remains of a group of factory buildings completed in 1875 for F.W. Devoe and Co., a paint-and-color works., The building at #113-115, dating from 1907-09, was originally the Seamen’s Institute, a hotel for visiting sailors and for “seamen in distress.” A beacon, then in place atop the octagonal tower, plays a role in the traditional tale of the arrival of the Titanic survivors at the hotel in 1912. It was owned by the YMCA from 1944 until 1946, when it became the Jane-West Hotel., #130, a paper warehouse created in 1898 by combining two buildings gutted by fire in 1891, was converted to residential use in 1976. , Plaque made possible by donations from the Jane Street Association and Harbor House Owner’s Corporation to the Greenwich Village Community Task Force , Part of the community-proposed Greenwich Village Waterfront Historic District