40 Mercer Street

also 465 Broadway, 110 Grand Street, 463 Broadway | SoHo | built 2005

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1859

    August 29

    Lord & Taylor opens a second store at Broadway and Grand Street, on this corner

    The dry-goods firm Lord & Taylor added a second store on August 29, 1859, a five-story marble building where Broadway meets Grand Street, while keeping its older Grand Street store in operation. The Broadway store lasted until 1870, when the firm relocated farther north, into a new building with a cast-iron front on Broadway at 20th Street. This was an earlier building on the site now occupied by 40 Mercer Street.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1859

    Griffith Thomas designs the 1858-59 Lord & Taylor store that once stood on this corner

    The northeast corner of Mercer and Grand Streets, running to Broadway, was once filled by an elegant Lord & Taylor store of 1858-59 designed by Griffith Thomas. The landmark report praises it and names Thomas as the architect of the Lord & Taylor store at Broadway and Grand. This was an earlier building on the site now occupied by 40 Mercer Street.

    “…the elegant 1858-59 Lord & Taylor store designed by Griffith Thomas…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1960

    November 19

    Fire destroys the former Lord & Taylor store at Mercer and Grand, leaving a parking lot

    On November 19, 1960, a fire destroyed the old Lord & Taylor store that had stood on the northeast corner of Mercer and Grand Streets since 1858-59. When the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District was surveyed, the whole Grand Street frontage of the block, from Mercer to Broadway, was a vacant parking lot. This was an earlier building on the site now occupied by 40 Mercer Street.

    “…remained standing until November 19, 1960 when it was destroyed by fire.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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