Robbins & Appleton Building

1 Bond Street | NoHo | built 1880

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1880
April 30
Stephen D. Hatch's Robbins & Appleton Building replaces a burned predecessor
Hatch's original 1871 building on the site had burned down on March 6, 1877. Its French Second Empire replacement, begun in June 1879, was finished the following spring with a mansard roof of three pavilions and dormers above a cast-iron facade.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1880
Watch caseworkers and a publisher share the new building
The American Waltham Watch Company took the upper floors, turning out about two million dollars worth of watch cases by the end of the year. Publisher D. Appleton & Co. occupied the first and second floors, basement and sub-basement, running its retail store, shipping department and executive offices there.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1979
June 19
The city designates the Robbins & Appleton Building a landmark
The Landmarks Preservation Commission gave the building individual landmark status. It was later added to the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places in 1982.
Source: Wikipedia
1986
The former lofts are converted to residential apartments
After decades as office and manufacturing space, the building was converted into residential apartments, part of a broader wave of loft conversions in the NoHo area during the 1980s.
Source: Wikipedia

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