Webb Building (365-367 Canal Street)

365 Canal Street | SoHo | built 1871

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

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  1. 1871

    December 31

    Newspaper publisher and former envoy to Brazil James Watson Webb finishes a five-story loft building at 365-367 Canal

    Webb, once owner of the New York Courier and Enquirer and appointed by Lincoln to serve in Brazil, began this building in 1871. Architect William Waring gave it an ornate French-style cast-iron base under plain Ohio-stone upper floors. It was apparently planned as a store with a 'tenement' above, but was completed on New Year's Eve 1871 as lofts for manufacturers and showrooms.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1875

    June 2

    Workers at 367 Canal stop work and wave handkerchiefs at the Masonic Temple parade

    On June 2, 1875, more than 17,000 Masons marched past for the dedication of the new Masonic Temple, in what the New York Times called the biggest civic display the city had seen. Work stopped at the underwear maker Siegel Brothers & Co. on an upper floor, where employees crowded the windows and waved handkerchiefs as the procession went by.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1877

    June 10

    Burglars tunnel from a carpet store at 365 Canal into the next-door jeweler and take $14,000 in goods

    On the night of June 10, 1877, thieves used false keys to enter Theo. W. Bailey & Sons' carpet store, then broke a two-foot hole through the wall into F. W. Pachtmann & Brother's jewelry shop at 363. They forced the safes, left silver behind, and took only the costliest items: diamonds worth $2,000, watches and jewelry worth $12,000, and $300 in cash. They fled back through the carpet store.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1910

    Beecham's Pills agent B. F. Allen & Co. courts suffragists from its Canal Street offices

    B. F. Allen & Co. was importing patent medicines here by 1890, including Beecham's Pills and Dr. Sheffield's early toothpaste, and shared the building with the agents for Pears' Soap. In March 1910 an ad in Teachers Magazine told women that, whatever their politics, a wise suffragette would 'cast her votes' for Beecham's. A Swiss cough tonic firm, Sirolin Co., moved in the same year.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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