Sargent's Daughters
370 Broadway | Civic Center | built 1880
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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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- 1880
D. & J. Jardine design a five-story brick store and loft at 370 Broadway for John Jay and E.B. Aymar
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The building went up in 1880 to plans by D. & J. Jardine, a well-regarded architectural firm, for owners John Jay and E.B. Aymar. It is about 25 feet wide and runs 150 feet through the block to Cortlandt Alley, where it is numbered 6. The brick front, with terra-cotta ornament, mixes neo-Grec and Queen Anne details.
“Constructed in 1880 for John Jay and E.B. Aymar, it was designed by the prominent architectural firm of D. & J. Jardine.”
- 1895
Dry goods firms from Savannah and Nashville keep New York offices at 370 Broadway in the 1890s
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In the 1890s the building served as a New York base for out-of-town dry goods houses, among them I. Epstein & Bro., a Savannah, Georgia firm, and the Nashville, Tennessee firm O. Bryan Bros., according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. By the 1920s the hosiery manufacturer A.V. Victorius & Company leased the building.
“I. Epstein & Bro. of Savannah, Georgia, and O. Bryan Bros. of Nashville, Tennessee, had their New York offices in the building…”
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