130 Greene Street

SoHo | built 1889

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1889
January 26
L. Sachs & Brothers complete a six-story iron-front store at 130 Greene Street
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Richard Berger designed 130 Greene Street for L. Sachs & Brothers, with work beginning on June 11, 1888 and ending on January 26, 1889. The building has six stories and three bays and an iron facade, and was used originally as a store.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1889
Slender iron colonnettes with a pierced screen set 130 Greene Street apart
Richard Berger's building is only three bays wide, but the report praises its careful neo-Grec detail. The slender central colonnettes carry oversized Ionic capitals and are fixed to the wall by a screen pierced with a stylized flower-and-leaf pattern. The Landmarks Commission calls them an imaginative use of cast iron's decorative possibilities, emphasizing the building's verticality.
“They are attached to the wall of the building by means of a screen-like element, pierced with a stylized flower and leaf design.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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