OK Harris Gallery building

383 West Broadway | also 71 Wooster Street, 69 Wooster Street, 383A West Broadway | SoHo | built 1868

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The lot about 1940
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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. 1868

    Pierre Lorillard has J. B. Snook build a tobacco-drying factory at 383 West Broadway

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    Construction began in 1868 on a brick factory with an iron storefront and cornice, designed by J. B. Snook for Pierre Lorillard. It was built as a factory for drying and moistening tobacco, and it is also addressed as 69-71 Wooster Street. The building was originally five stories tall.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1905

    In 1905 the Wooster Street front is removed and a sixth story is added

    A 1905 alteration took off the entire Wooster Street front of the former tobacco factory and raised the building by one story, to six floors. The West Broadway front kept its brick, iron storefront and cornice, and stone banding, though the ground floor has since been altered.

    “Building raised one story in 1905, when Wooster front removed. Alterations on ground floor…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1969

    October

    Ivan Karp founds OK Harris, which later settles at 383 West Broadway

    Ivan Karp left the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1969 after a decade as co-director and opened his own gallery, OK Harris, choosing a name that sounded like an American riverboat gambler. It was the second gallery on West Broadway, after Paula Cooper's of 1968. The gallery was first at 465 West Broadway and later moved to 383 West Broadway.

    “The gallery was established in October 1969. As the second gallery on West Broadway (following Paula Cooper who had opened in SoHo in 1968) OK Harris was instrumental…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2014

    June

    OK Harris closes its 383 West Broadway gallery after nearly 45 years

    OK Harris shut in June 2014, having operated since October 1969. Its 8,000-square-foot space at 383 West Broadway could mount up to five one-person shows at once. The gallery was among the first to show Duane Hanson, Deborah Butterfield and Robert Cottingham.

    Source: Wikipedia

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