Dreyfus, Kohn & Co. Building

35 Mercer Street | also 103 Grand Street, 97 Grand Street | SoHo | built 1867

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1867

    Amos Eno builds a five-story sandstone store at Mercer and Grand

    Real estate investor Amos R. Eno, who had made his fortune in dry goods, put up this Italianate building on the southwest corner of Mercer and Grand Streets. He built an identical neighbor at 31-33 Mercer at the same time. Richard Walters ran an auction room on the ground floor, selling furniture, pianos, mirrors and carpets, while the wholesale dry goods firm Treadwell, Taylor & Co. leased the upper floors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1871

    Importers Dreyfus, Kohn & Co. take the upper floors for 25 years

    Dreyfus, Kohn & Co., importers of apparel and millinery trimmings founded in 1858, replaced Treadwell, Taylor & Co. at 35 Mercer in 1871. The Panic of 1893 badly hurt the firm. In March 1896 partner Aaron Kohn fell ill and went to Jamaica, and the partners decided to close. Moses G. Rosenblatt died that August, about two weeks after the firm suspended business.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1899

    Wholesale drygoods firm William Openhym & Sons moves in after the Eno estate sale

    After Amos Eno died in 1898, the building was sold at auction in February 1899. It then became the home of William Openhym & Sons, a wholesale drygoods house founded in 1853 and run since 1892 by four brothers: William, Adolphe, Joseph and Emile. The firm stayed until 1912, when it moved uptown to the new Emmet Building at Madison Avenue and 29th Street. Apparel firms such as the Manhattan Silk Company and Rossie Velvet Company followed.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1978

    A renovation turns the upper floors into live-work lofts for certified artists

    As artists reshaped SoHo in the 1970s, a renovation completed in 1978 converted the floors above the stores at 35 Mercer into joint living and working quarters: two apartments on the second floor and one on each floor above. The Department of Buildings required that at least one occupant of each apartment be an artist certified by the city's Department of Cultural Affairs. Architect Walter David Brown was among the first residents. A later renovation made two artist lofts on every floor.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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