147 Spring Street

SoHo | built 1870

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

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1870
September 30
Robert Mook completes a five-story cast-iron store at 147 Spring Street with iron from Excelsior Iron Works
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Architect Robert Mook designed this five-story, three-bay store for builder Michael Gehegan, started in May 1870 and finished that September. The cast-iron facade uses popular French motifs, with Corinthian-topped columns on the ground floor and a cornice carried on foliated console brackets. The iron came from the Excelsior Iron Works, and the Commission notes that the front contrasts with the early 19th-century Federal houses and later commercial buildings on its block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
Painter John Ferren keeps a studio here, in the same building as Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman School
Abstract Expressionist John Ferren moved with his family to East Hampton a few years after a 1963-64 State Department residency in Beirut, but he kept a studio at 147 Spring Street. He shared the building with the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, the experimental performance company Robert Wilson founded in 1968. Ferren was then also teaching at Queens College, and he died in 1970.
“…he also maintained a studio in New York at 147 Spring Street (sharing the building with Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds)…”
Source: Wikipedia

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