149 Spring Street
SoHo | built 1898
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1898
George Saward completes an eight-story loft building at 149 Spring Street, designed by George F. Pelham
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George F. Pelham designed an eight-story loft building at 149 Spring Street for owner George Saward. Work began in March 1897 and ended on October 29, 1898. The facade combines brick, terra cotta and iron and is four bays wide, with each pair of bays treated as one double bay. The city's survey notes that the original entablature has since been removed.
- 1973
Cecil Taylor's Town Hall program notes name Spring Natural Foods at 149 Spring Street as a venue
When pianist Cecil Taylor returned to New York in 1973 after three and a half years in the Midwest, where he held composer residencies at the University of Wisconsin and Antioch College, the program for his November 4 Town Hall concert announced special programs at the Spring Natural Foods restaurant, 149 Spring Street. The notes described an ambitious project for his Unit Core, with dance, voice and special effects. The Town Hall recording became the live album Spring of Two Blue-J's.
“Mr. Taylor will be presenting various parts of this project in a series of special programs to take place at the Spring Natural Foods restaurant, 149 Spring Street, in Soho.”
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