187 Spring Street

SoHo | built 1854

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

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1854
Merchant Hosea F. Clark has a six-story tenement built at 187 Spring Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this building to the early 1850s, between 1852 and 1854, when it went up for Hosea F. Clark, who was a merchant. Clark had acquired the property in 1849 in a deed from Lewis E. Clark and others. The brick building rose six stories and was later altered and stripped of its original detail.
“…originally constructed between 1852 and 1854 for Hosea F. Clark, a merchant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1944
A 1944 alteration strips the cornice from the tenement at 187 Spring Street
City building records show an alteration filed in 1944 for 187 Spring Street. It removed the metal cornice and substituted a patterned-brick parapet, which has since been covered in stucco. The molded stone lintels and sills were also lost, and the storefront and entrance were modernized, leaving a building the district report classes as non-contributing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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