12 Wooster Street

SoHo | built 1884

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1884
John B. Snook designs a five-story iron-and-brick store at 12 Wooster for C. L. Wolfe
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission's SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District report records No. 12 Wooster Street as begun in May 1883 and finished in 1884. John B. Snook was the architect and C. L. Wolfe the original owner, and the building went up as a store with brick, stone and iron on its facade. The report credits the Ferdon Iron Works with the ironwork. When the district was surveyed for the report, the ground-floor windows had been bricked in and the ground-floor cornice was gone.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1981
Sewing-machine firms Dubrow and Hern work at 12 Wooster until James Dee's 1981 purchase
A 2019 filing to the Landmarks Preservation Commission says the building's first business was Dubrow, a maker of sewing machines, later joined by a firm called Hern. Hern lasted 98 years, until a 1981 purchase by James Dee, who founded the 12 Wooster Street Tenants Association. The filing adds that the two firms eventually shifted from manufacturing sewing machines to maintaining and repairing them, and that the ground floor had been used to show finished products.
Source: nyc.gov

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