The owners of the wine store Pasanella & Son, Vintners, are selling their five-story building on South Street, which includes the store, a loft and six rental apartments.
The 1839 Greek Revival building at 115 South Street is on the market for $14.95 million. The five-story property totals 13,119 square feet and comprises a full-floor penthouse loft, six half-floor rental apartments, and a commercial space on the ground floor, where the building’s owners, Marco Pasanella and Rebecca Robertson, run their celebrated wine store, Pasanella & Son, Vintners. Jim St. André of Compass is the broker.
The couple purchased the building in 2002. The old Fulton Fish Market was still operating, and the ground floor space was being used as a transfer station for 70,000 pounds of salmon every market day. The top floor, now their loft, had drop ceilings, “and the last guy who lived there had blocked off all of the windows,” Mr. Pasanella recalled.
Drawing on their shared backgrounds in interior design, the couple pared the loft back to its original timber framing, wide-plank floors, and brick walls. A fireplace that had lain hidden got a new chimney, covered in white-and-blue Delft tile with a seafaring motif — a nod to the Dutch era of the city’s waterfront.
A massive wood-and-steel hoist, once used to haul sailcloth up to the workshops of a ship’s chandlery, now forms one wall of a casual corner nook. “That’s where our son has done all of his creative work from birth,” said Ms. Robertson. (“I only put away his sewing machine because you were coming,” she added with a laugh.)
The loft is 37 feet wide, and windows running the length of its eastern wall give unobstructed views of the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the bridge itself. An open kitchen occupies one of the rear corners of the living area; two bedrooms and a full and a half bathroom occupy the rear of the loft, separated from the living area by a wall mounted with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Midmorning sunlight reflecting off the river illuminates the 14-foot ceilings and its honey-colored beams.
