180 Lafayette Street

SoHo | built 1893

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.

1893
Buchman & Deisler complete a seven-story Queen Anne loft at 180 Lafayette Street for Frederick Woehr
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Frederick Woehr had this store and loft building put up in 1891-93, designed by the firm Buchman & Deisler. It rose when big factories and stores were spreading through the streets near Broadway. Paneled cast-iron columns, terra-cotta panels and a pressed-metal cornice mark its Queen Anne styling.
“…designed by the architectural firm Buchman & Deisler and built in 1891-93 for Frederick Woehr…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
A moving-picture company rents space at 180 Lafayette Street in 1908
In 1908 the Vitak Co., listed as a moving-picture business, was a tenant. Later occupants included the Haseltine Motor Corp. in 1919, a fur dealer, H.T. Hoffman, in 1923, and the New Italy Book Co. from 1936 to 1939. By 1946 the United States Grinding Wheel Co. had moved in.
“…the Vitak Co., moving pictures (1908); the Haseltine Motor Corp. (1919)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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