137 Grand Street

SoHo | built 1911

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

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1911
George F. Pelham designs a seven-story terra-cotta loft at 137-139 Grand Street
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Architect George F. Pelham designed this seven-story neo-Classical store and loft, built in 1911 for the 133 West 19th Street Company, Inc. It took the place of two brick buildings dating from the early 1800s. Its terra-cotta front carries oversized Greek frets and other exaggerated classical details. The city's landmarks commission notes that small houses long since turned to industrial use were then being replaced all around SoHo by larger lofts.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1917
Gas fixtures, nickel plating, modeling and sportswear firms take space at 137-139 Grand Street
Tenants of the loft building at 137-139 Grand Street show the mix of small trades that filled SoHo in the twentieth century. The New York Gas and Electric Fixture Co. was listed there in 1917 and the Lehman Pross Nickel Plating Co. in 1929. The Manhattan Modeling and Chasing Co. followed in 1936, Krasilovsky Industrial Contractors in 1939, and the Tung Yick Sportswear Co. in 1979.
“New York Gas and Electric Fixture Co. (1917); the Lehman Pross Nickel Plating Co. (1929); the Manhattan Modeling and Chasing Co. (1936)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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