438 Broome Street

SoHo | built 1885

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

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1879
Felix Marx and his son open a second restaurant at 438 Broome Street
By 1879 Felix Marx, who had run an eating house at 185 Church Street, and his son J. L. Marx had opened a second restaurant at 438 Broome Street. This was six years before the present cast-iron building went up on the lot, so it was an earlier building on the site.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1885
November 20
E. Kilpatrick completes a five-story iron-fronted store at 438 Broome Street for Jane Major
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Construction began on May 20, 1885 and was completed on November 20. Architect E. Kilpatrick designed the building for owner Jane Major as a store, five stories tall and four bays wide, with an iron facade. It stands in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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