415 Lafayette Street

NoHo | built 1900

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1886
A congregation turns the ground floor of an old Lafayette Street house into a store
No. 415 began as a three-and-a-half-story house with a peaked roof; its attic was raised to a full story in 1884. In 1886 the First Congregation of the Religion of Humanity, the owner, converted the ground floor to a store with cast-iron columns and plate-glass windows while the upper floors stayed a private dwelling. By 1911 the building served as a factory.
“Two years later its first story was converted to a store with the addition of cast-iron columns and plate glass. By 1911, it was in use as a factory.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1918
415 Lafayette Street becomes a wine and liquor bottling plant in 1918
In 1918 an interior connection was opened to 32 Cooper Square and the basement was raised to street level, so that the building could be used to bottle and store wines and liquors. The owners were M. and B. C. Samuels, the lessee was Harry Barth, and James Ellicott was the architect. Seven years earlier the front steps had been removed for the widening of Lafayette Street and the subway.
“…connected internally to 32 Cooper Square and its basement level was raised to street level. It was used for the bottling and storage of wines and liquors.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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