42 Greene Street
also 42A Greene Street, 42B Greene Street | SoHo | built 1900
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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.
- 1869
D. Appleton & Co. becomes the first tenant of H. J. Howard's new stone building at 42-44 Greene Street
Griffith Thomas designed this five-story store and warehouse, and Marc Eidlitz built it for the owner, H. J. Howard. It was finished on July 19, 1869. The Landmarks Preservation Commission records that the publishing house D. Appleton & Co. first leased the building.
- 1869
The stone front of 42-44 Greene Street pairs restrained French Renaissance detail with an iron storefront
Built in 1868-69 for H. J. Howard, this building has a stone upper facade with plain pilasters and a low projecting central section topped by a pediment. Its iron ground floor is more ornate, with fluted columns, panelled pilasters and Corinthian capitals, all decorated with a medallion motif. That storefront continues across the neighboring building at 46-50, which the Howard family had put up almost a decade before.
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