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372 Broadway | Civic Center | built 1854

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1854
Samuel Wyman completes a marble-faced Italianate store and loft at 372 Broadway
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Tax records show the five-story building was put up between 1852 and 1854 for Samuel Wyman. Its marble front has four bays of windows per floor, with elaborate hoods, brackets and keystones at the second story, and it is topped by a bracketed marble cornice. The lot is about 25 feet wide and 150 feet deep, reaching Cortlandt Alley at number 8.
“It was constructed in 1852-54 for Samuel Wyman.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1869
Hat and fur wholesalers Williams & Whittlesey occupy 372 Broadway in 1869
A merchants directory from 1869 places Williams & Whittlesey Co., wholesalers of hats and furs, in the building. Over the following decades it was used as a store and for offices and light manufacturing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1895
Santa Fe merchants A. Staab and Seligman Bros. keep New York offices at 372 Broadway
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In the 1890s two dry goods firms from Santa Fe, New Mexico, A. Staab and Seligman Bros., kept their New York offices at 372 Broadway, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
“A. Staab and Seligman Bros., both dry goods firms based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had their New York offices in this building.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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