407 Broome Street

also 251 Centre Street | Little Italy | built 1900

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

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1901
A seven-story loft replaces two early buildings at Centre and Broome
The architect Albert V. Porter designed this L-shaped seven-story loft for August Trenkmann in 1901-02. It replaced two brick buildings from the early nineteenth century, part of a wave in which small houses long converted to industrial use gave way to larger lofts. The building faces both Centre and Broome Streets and Trenkmann's estate still owned it when SoHo's district was extended in 2010.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1904
Folmer & Schwing, camera makers, are among the early tenants of the loft
Early tenants of the building included Folmer & Schwing, manufacturers of photographic supplies and cameras, listed there in 1904. May-Michaelson Novelty Co. followed in 1913 and the Globe Leather Co. in 1923. Later occupants included an oil burner firm, a motor tool company and, in 1975, an antique market. The upper floors have since become offices.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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