Clark Building

336 Canal Street | also 336B Canal Street, 338 Canal Street, 336A Canal Street | Tribeca | built 1895

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

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1894
Restaurant-chain owner John J. Clark finances an eight-story building with eating houses on the ground floor
John J. Clark, who owned a chain of restaurants, financed this eight-story building in 1894-95; the city's new-building application called it an office building. It replaced three frame structures. The ground story was first occupied by restaurants, then known as eating houses, including one from Clark's chain, and the upper floors were later used for storage and light manufacturing. He had earlier put up the nearby building at 332 Canal Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
The Clark Building puts its name and the year 1894 on a metal cornice above a brick Renaissance Revival front
The eight-story Clark Building is about 51 feet wide, and its brick front is what the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls an Edwardian variation of Renaissance Revival, with windows grouped under segmental arches and pressed-metal spandrels with recessed panels. A metal cornice bears the building's name and the year 1894, and the words CLARK BUILDING also run over the main entrance. No architect appears on the application, but directories list a John J. Clark as an architect, and the report attributes the design to him.
“Pressed metal spandrels with recessed panels and a metal cornice bearing the building's name and year of construction ("1894") further enhance the design.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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