107 Grand Street
also 32 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1882
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1881
William Astor builds an iron-fronted store at Grand and Mercer, designed by Thomas Stent
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Work started on June 21, 1881, on a store for William Astor at the southeast corner of Grand and Mercer Streets, with Thomas Stent as architect and Marc Eidlitz as builder. Heurelmann & Co. Iron Works supplied the cast iron. Two more stories went on top in 1906, leaving the building eight stories tall.
- 1882
The 1881-82 corner building is a modified French classical design covering 87 feet
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The Landmarks Commission describes the 1881-82 building at the Mercer Street corner as modified French classical in style, covering 87 feet of the south side of Grand Street. The remaining 113 feet of that block front belong to a five-story building of 1860-61 at the Broadway corner. At the time of the report, the opposite side of the street was a parking lot more than a hundred feet deep.
- 1900
William Napier completes a major addition for the Roosevelt estate beside Astor's store
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In 1899 the estate of James R. Roosevelt began a large extension of the corner store, completed on October 2, 1900, to designs by William Napier. The commission lists it, under the address 32 Mercer Street, as a store-and-loft block of brick and iron and a major addition to the original section that Thomas Stent had designed for William Astor in 1881-82.
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