178 Prince Street
SoHo | built 1860
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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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- 1860
Wheelwright William Westerfield builds a five-story loft at 178 Prince in 1860
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William Westerfield, a wheelwright who ran his business across the street at 177 Prince Street, built this five-story Italianate loft in 1860. Its red-brick front is plain apart from a modillioned cornice. Before 1903 the east bay was turned into a shaftway with a hoistway, a change that let goods move between the street and the upper floors. The cast-iron piers of the original ground floor still stand.
“…built for William Westerfield, a wheelwright with a business across the street at 177 Prince Street…”
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