401 West Broadway

also 162 Spring Street, 399 West Broadway | SoHo | built 1880

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1819
George Wragg builds a row of dwellings including the corner house at 162 Spring Street
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George Wragg developed the south side of Spring Street between Wooster Street and West Broadway around 1819. His dwellings include 162 Spring Street, the corner house now also numbered 401 West Broadway. The report counts it among the early buildings that remain on the block, though several were altered over time.
“The south side was developed about 1819 by a George Wragg. The original early buildings remaining on this side of the street are Nos. 146, 152, 156, 158, 160, and 162…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1860
The Wragg house at 162 Spring Street loses its peaked roof and gains a fourth floor
The report says the original peaked roof of 162 Spring Street was taken off and a fourth story added in the third quarter of the 19th century. The fourth floor keeps iron window lintels of about 1860, and the iron cornice on foliated brackets dates from the same time. The ground floor has been altered since.
“No. 158 and 162 had their original peaked roofs removed and a fourth story added sometime in the third quarter of the 19th century…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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