417 Lafayette Street

NoHo | built 1894

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

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1894
Ferdinand Mela builds an eight-story warehouse at 417 Lafayette Street
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Ferdinand Mela, who built several buildings in the area, put up this eight-story warehouse in 1893-94 to designs by Cleverdon & Putzel. It rose as a once-fashionable residential and amusement area changed into a district of warehouses and factories. By 1898 it held manufacturing lofts, a use that continued above the ground floor until apartments replaced them in the 1980s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1911
The storefront at 417 Lafayette Street is pushed back for the street widening and subway
In 1911 the building's projecting storefront was moved back to the plane of the facade because Lafayette Street was being widened and the subway built. The work was done for owners Caroline Condit and Olive W. Hall, with John B. Snook & Sons as architects.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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