29 Mercer Street

SoHo | built 1868

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

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1868
Louis Burger designs a marble-fronted loft for Henry Cardoza
Henry Cardoza commissioned architect Louis Burger in 1867 to design a five-story store and loft building at 29 Mercer, finished in 1868. A cast-iron storefront with Corinthian columns carries four marble floors, each marked off by a small projecting cornice, in a style borrowed from French Second Empire work. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists Cardoza as original owner.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1871
Hat maker J. Sheldon leads apparel firms into the building
Among the first tenants was J. Sheldon, whose men's hat business operated here in 1871 and who helped bring millinery and apparel trades to the neighborhood. Hertlein & Schlatter made fringes and dress trimmings upstairs in 1880 with a second factory on Canal Street. About 1900 pleating maker William J. Boesen employed a workforce that was half teenage boys on 54-hour weeks.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1876
December 18
Importers Pratt & Farmer lose 3,000 gross of buttons
On December 18, 1876 the importers Pratt & Farmer found that 3,000 gross of buttons, worth nearly $100,000 in today's money, had been taken from their premises without any sign of forced entry. A porter at 35 Mercer, George Lagenhoff, told police he had watched the firm's own porter, Frederick Meyers, open the door and load boxes onto a truck, and Meyers was arrested.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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