37 Crosby Street

SoHo | built 1857

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

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1822
A house built in 1822-23 for Joseph Taylor may be the core of 37 Crosby Street (earlier building on the site)
Before the present tenement, an earlier house stood on this lot, built in 1822-23 for Joseph Taylor. The landmarks commission says the six-story building of about 1856-57 may be an enlargement of that house, rather than a wholly new structure. If so, part of the original early-nineteenth-century dwelling survives inside the tenement.
“It may have been the enlargement of an earlier house on the lot that was built in 1822-23 for Joseph Taylor.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1857
A six-story Italianate tenement rises at 37 Crosby Street around 1856-57
The brick tenement at 37 Crosby Street dates from about 1856-57 and was built for either John Delaplaine or Philemon H. Frost. It has molded window lintels and a bracketed wooden cornice, and a second brick building sits at the back of the lot. It was built as SoHo shifted from a well-off residential area to a mix of tenements, factories, stables, saloons and gambling halls.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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