166 Spring Street

also 402 West Broadway | SoHo | built 1880

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1880
John B. Snook designs a five-story store and loft building for Catherine Lorillard Wolfe
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Architect John B. Snook designed the neo-Grec building at the corner of West Broadway and Spring Street, completed in 1880 for Catherine Lorillard Wolfe. It has five stories of brick, with projecting window sills, angular lintels and a bracketed cornice. The city's landmarks report places it among the modest industrial buildings that went up around Broadway as SoHo turned to the dry-goods and mercantile trade.
“…designed by architect John B. Snook and was built in 1880 for Catherine Lorillard Wolfe…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
Philip Morris & Co. is recorded at this corner in 1911, and the Hollywood Whisky Co. follows by 1919
The tobacco firm Philip Morris & Co. is listed at 402-404 West Broadway in 1911, and the Hollywood Whisky Co. occupies the building in 1919. Earlier, in 1894, an embroiderer named William Brunner had been a tenant. The landmarks report counts the building among the commercial and institutional uses that filled SoHo's loft blocks.
“Philip Morris & Co., tobacco (1911); the Hollywood Whisky Co. (1919)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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