423 Broome Street

SoHo | built 1884

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

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1884
Scovill Manufacturing, the photographic supplier, builds a Queen Anne loft at 423 Broome Street
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Built in 1883-84 for the Scovill Manufacturing Company to designs by D. & J. Jardine, this building served a firm that made and supplied photographic equipment. Scovill also controlled the Photographic Times Publishing Association, which issued two magazines, The Photographic Times and American Photographer, and operated a school of photography. A seventh story was added in 1923.
“Scovill was a manufacturer and supply house for photographic equipment, owned the Photographic Times Publishing Association…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1983
Artists convert the upper floors of 423 Broome Street into joint living and working space
In 1983 the upper floors were converted into joint living and working quarters for artists. By then the building had held a range of businesses, from the Manhattan Brass & Electric Co. in 1919-30 to the Albin Machine Co., attic fans, in 1958. The Keen Gallery was a tenant by 1990.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2003
Designer Nanette Lepore runs a fashion boutique at 423 Broome Street
By 2003 the building housed a boutique of the fashion designer Nanette Lepore. In 1996 it had held a home-furnishings shop called Planet Hemp.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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