402 Broadway

Civic Center | built 1854

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

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1854
Tobacco manufacturer Peter Lorillard builds three Italianate buildings that read as one wide front
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In 1853-54 Peter Lorillard had three five-story buildings built side by side with Italianate facades designed to look like a single very wide structure. No. 402 was the southernmost, with a cast-iron storefront from Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works. Its early tenants were makers of shirts and baskets and importers of French millinery goods.
“…the southernmost of three five-story buildings erected for Lorillard with Italianate facades made to appear as one very wide structure…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1938
Architects Kelley and Hess cut 402 Broadway down to three stories for Charles F. Noyes
In 1938 Frederic P. Kelley and Arthur Paul Hess redesigned this 25-foot-wide building for owner Charles F. Noyes, one of three neighboring Lorillard-era buildings they remade for him. The five-story Italianate original was reduced to three stories with an orange brick front, bands of steel casement windows and a striped parapet. A textile firm occupied it when the district was designated.
“…its appearance is the result of a 1938 alteration to a structure erected in 1853-54 for tobacco manufacturer Peter Lorillard.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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