109 Prince Street

also 119 Greene Street | SoHo | built 1883

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  1. 1881

    March 11

    Freeman Woodbury and his partners pay $36,000 for three properties at Prince and Greene streets

    On March 11, 1881, Freeman P. Woodbury and his partners, among them C. H. Woodbury, bought a three-story frame-and-brick store at 109 Prince Street, a two-story brick house and store at 119 Greene Street and the three-story brick dwelling at 119 1/2 Greene next to it, for $36,000. They commissioned Jarvis Morgan Slade to replace the old buildings with a store-and-loft building. The district south of Houston Street was turning from brick houses to cast-iron lofts at that time.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1882

    Architect Jarvis Morgan Slade dies at 30, two months after work on the building begins

    J. Morgan Slade designed the corner building at Prince and Greene for C. H. Woodbury in a French Renaissance style. The Landmarks Preservation Commission records that he died at 30, about two months after construction started. The five-story building has ten bays on Greene Street and five on Prince, with a diagonal corner bay that once held the main store entrance.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1882

    Jarvis Morgan Slade designs a French Renaissance cast-iron building on Prince Street

    Developer Freeman P. Woodbury and partners pay $36,000 for the Prince Street corner lot in March 1881 and hire architect Jarvis Morgan Slade to design a five-story cast-iron store and factory building. Completed in 1882, the French Renaissance facade uses large windows between fluted pilasters to light the upper floors for the silk and apparel trades that soon fill the building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1908

    Silk dealers and cloak makers fill the loft floors as the garment trades move north

    By the early 1900s 109 Prince Street sat in New York's silk district. Shirt maker Charles Miller was a tenant in 1891, and in 1908 the Japanese silk dealer Singuro Arakawa ran his business here while living at the Nippon Club on West 85th Street. By 1913 L. & I. Gleichenhaus made cloaks in the building, and in 1942 the Main-Chem Corporation, a maker of chemical supplies, was a tenant as the garment trades inched uptown.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1994

    The building earns a landmark award after a 1990s restoration

    Architects Kapell & Kostow restore the long-obscured cast-iron facade in the early 1990s, stripping away decades of grime to reveal Jarvis Morgan Slade's original design. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission honors the project with a Landmark Certificate of Merit in 1994, within the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District.

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 1999

    A one-bedroom loft condo here lists for $1.375 million in 1999

    In 1999 a one-bedroom, one-bath condo in the converted building came on the market for $1.375 million, with a private elevator, 4,000 square feet and 13-foot ceilings. The price showed how far the district had come since the 1970s, when trucks still rattled over stone-paved streets and the grime-streaked cast-iron front stood in an overlooked warehouse district. Artists drawn by low rents had converted the lofts to studios along the way.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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