424 West Broadway

SoHo | built 1852

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

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1852
A three-story brick building goes up at 424 West Broadway for Robert Rogers or John Glover
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this building to about 1851-52 and says its first owner was either Robert Rogers or John Glover, without settling which. The report says it was altered many times over the years and calls the changes unsympathetic. Its present brick facade dates from the 1990s.
“…originally constructed in c.1851-52 for either Robert Rogers or John Glover, but was unsympathetically altered many times over the years…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
424 West Broadway is partly demolished and given a rebuilt facade as Laurens Street is widened
When the city widened Laurens Street, now West Broadway, in the early 1870s, many buildings on its west side were taken down in whole or part. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's district report counts 424 West Broadway among those that were torn down in part and fitted with new or rebuilt facades. The widened street was renamed South Fifth Avenue and later became West Broadway.
“Buildings that were partially demolished and given new or rebuilt facades included 390, 396, 398, 424, and 482 West Broadway.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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