23 Greene Street

also 25 Greene Street | SoHo | built 1873

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

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1873
February 28
J. E. Hyams has a five-story iron store and warehouse finished at 23-25 Greene Street
Construction ran from July 1872 until the end of February 1873. I. F. Duckworth designed the five-story, six-bay building for J. E. Hyams, and the iron front was cast by the Aetna Iron Works. It was built to serve as both a store and a warehouse. The Landmarks Preservation Commission later noted that the ground-floor pilaster bases had been altered when a stoop was added.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1873
Duckworth gives 23-25 Greene Street a French Renaissance iron front topped by a central pediment
The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the building as a striking five-story design in a derivative French Renaissance manner. A pediment sits over the two central bays, and partly fluted columns with stylized Corinthian capitals separate the bays. Architect I. F. Duckworth also designed two buildings across the street, at 28-30 and 32 Greene Street, though the report says he used fewer flourishes here.
“…striking five-story building, executed in a derivative French Renaissance manner crowned by a pediment set directly over the two central bays…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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