400 Broadway

also 70 Walker Street | Civic Center | built 1865

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1. 1862

   Part of Florence's Hotel stood on this corner before the present building

   Before the current store and loft building went up, this corner at Broadway and Walker Street held a masonry building that was part of Florence's Hotel. It was cleared in the early 1860s when Augustus Hemenway of Boston had a new building erected here.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1865

   Augustus Hemenway of Boston completes a four-story Second Empire store and loft building

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   Erected in 1862-65 for Hemenway, the building measures thirty feet on its Broadway side and 100 feet on its Walker Street side, at the northwest corner of the intersection. The architect is unknown. Its stone front, now painted, is built up in Second Empire style from tiers of cornices, end piers and flat-arched openings with curved corners.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1908

   A passageway joins 400 Broadway to its neighbor at No. 402 in 1908

   The Hemenway building was linked to No. 402 by a passageway in 1908. In 1912 architects Nast & Springsteen, working for the Hemenway estate, set the show windows on both facades back to the building line and replaced a projecting front staircase. Tenants over the years included J.M. Remme & Company, a hat, cap, fur and umbrella firm, and the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company.

   “This structure was connected via a passageway to No. 402 in 1908. In 1912 the show windows on both facades were set back to the building line…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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