Diana Kellogg Renovates Tribeca Home with Salvaged Freight Elevator and Industrial Remnants
Diana Kellogg has spent over 25 years transforming her family's former cold storage building at 4 Staple Street in Tribeca. Following her children's departure, she embarked on a significant renovation, creatively using materials from a decommissioned freight elevator to construct kitchen features and a steel staircase. The elevator shaft has been converted into a glass-enclosed Green Room. Industrial touches include 25-foot chestnut ceiling beams, which posed a challenge for Kellogg to refinish. The upstairs bedrooms boast vaulted brick ceilings behind sliding mahogany doors, while the playroom on the ground floor has been turned into a TV room. The roof terrace has also been redesigned, with photography by Andrew Brinka.
Key facts
- Diana Kellogg renovated her Tribeca home at 4 Staple Street, occupied by her family for 25 years
- The building was originally cold storage for produce distributors, later a plumber's supply storefront, and became a residence about 50 years ago
- Salvage from a removed freight elevator was repurposed into kitchen elements, bookcases, and a staircase connecting four levels
- The elevator shaft was replaced by a glass-wrapped seating nook called the Green Room
- Stripped 25-foot chestnut beams span the ceiling, retaining industrial character
- Upstairs bedrooms with vaulted brick ceilings are divided by sliding mahogany doors
- The former children's playroom became a TV room, with one climbing rope kept and often mistaken for art
- Photographs by Ljubodrag Andric flank the first-floor fireplace; images of the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl's School, completed 2021 in India's Thar Desert, hang downstairs
Entities
Artists
- Diana Kellogg
- Ljubodrag Andric
- Andrew Brinka
- Crina Arghirescu Rogard
- Andrea Leung
- Isamu Noguchi
Institutions
- Diana Kellogg Architects
- Dezeen
- American Thread Building
- Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl's School
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Tribeca
- Staple Street
- India
- Thar Desert
Sources
- Dezeen —