152 Wooster Street
also 156 Wooster Street | SoHo | built 1891
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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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- 1891
Patrick H. McManus completes a brush factory and salesrooms at 152-156 Wooster Street
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Construction began on October 20, 1890, and wrapped up on December 31, 1891. The architect was J. Averit Webster, and the owner was Patrick H. McManus. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists the original use as a brush manufactory with sales space.
- 1891
The 152-156 Wooster front applies Beaux-Arts Classical design to a six-story twelve-bay building
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The lowest two floors form a base with four giant segmental arches over the big showroom windows. Above them, brick piers divide the upper floors into four sections of three bays. Iron pilasters separate the windows, and the fifth-floor windows are round-arched. A sixth floor sits above a dividing cornice, under an iron entablature with foliated brackets and circular medallions.
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