273 Canal Street

also 31 Howard Street | SoHo | built 1858

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

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1858
George L. Hyatt builds a loft at 273 Canal Street that his carpet firm occupies for decades
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Around 1857-58 George L. Hyatt had a five-story loft building put up at 273 Canal Street. Hyatt owned the Hyatt Company, a long-established New York carpet business, and the firm occupied the building for many decades. Other tenants later included a paper box maker, a novelty shop and a cotton wholesaler, then a rag warehouse, a furniture store and a druggist.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1858
The stone front at 273 Canal Street follows the A.T. Stewart store's Italianate model
The stone facade of 273 Canal Street, possibly marble, borrows from the A.T. Stewart store of 1845-1853, the city's first Italianate commercial building. It also has a second front on Howard Street, at number 31. The Canal Street upper stories and cornice remain largely intact, but the Howard Street front has been stripped.
“…design of the building's stone (possibly marble) facade took its queue from leading commercial palaces of the mid-nineteenth, especially Trench and Snook's A.T. Stewart Store…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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