A. T. Stewart Store and Lofts

18 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1861

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1861
A. T. Stewart has John Kellum design a store and lofts at 18 Mercer Street
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In 1861 the department-store merchant A. T. Stewart had a cast-iron store and loft building erected at 18 Mercer Street, to the design of John Kellum. It rose five stories, and a sixth was added later, with its window openings filled in and its capitals and ornament lost. The landmark survey notes that its iron front was listed in the Badger foundry catalog.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1861
John Kellum, Stewart's architect, designs 18 Mercer Street among a few buildings in SoHo
John Kellum (1807-1871) worked for A. T. Stewart, the city's first department-store magnate, and designed his second major store at Broadway and 10th Street between 1859 and 1862. Stewart's mansion at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street and the Working Women's Hotel were also his work. In the SoHo-Cast Iron district, the landmark report credits him with a small group of buildings, among them 18 Mercer Street of 1861.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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