414 Broadway

Civic Center | built 1871

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

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1871
Joel Richardson designs, finances and builds a six-story marble-front loft at 414 Broadway
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Joel Richardson, acting as both architect and owner, built this 27-foot-wide store and loft building between 1867 and 1871. At first it rose six stories, with a marble front and arched windows, and some of its granite vault covers still lie in the sidewalk. Richardson thus handled design, financing and construction himself.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
A seventh story and limestone neo-Renaissance facade appear by 1912
A 1906 alteration filing still showed six stories, but one from 1912 records a seventh, so the extra floor and new limestone front were evidently added in between. For most of that period the building belonged to two co-owners, realtor Israel Lippmann and suit merchant Milton M. Eisman. Elaborate second-story pilasters and an entablature mark the new facade.
“An Alteration Application from 1906 indicates that the building was still six stories at that time; however, the subsequent Alteration Application from 1912 indicates an existing seventh story…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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