443 Broadway

also 22 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1860

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  1. 1860

    Griffith Thomas designs a five-story Italianate store at 443-445 Broadway with a facade entirely of stone

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    The five-story, six-bay Italianate building was finished in 1860 for an owner named N. Ludlum, to designs by Griffith Thomas. Its facade is entirely of stone, with round-arched windows each capped by a small cornice slab on brackets. A balustrade with an urn at each end stretches below the middle second-floor windows, and a pediment crowns the cornice. The ground floor has been rebuilt, but it once had arched doors and show windows.

    “Built in 1860 for N. Ludlum by Griffith Thomas, the building is aesthetically very successful. The entire facade is stone.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1863

    Publisher D. Appleton & Co. moves its offices into the Ludlum building on Broadway

    About three years after the building opened, the business and editorial offices of the publishing house D. Appleton & Co. moved in. The firm later published memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman and William H. Seward. Demand for books of that kind after the Civil War forced Appleton to find more room, and it left 443-445 Broadway after only about three years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1913

    The Ludlum heirs sell 443-445 Broadway for $260,000 after 72 years of family ownership

    For many years around 1900, the lace and embroidery firm Einstein, Wolff & Co. leased the whole building, importing and manufacturing laces and embroideries. The firm left in February 1913, and in June the Ludlum heirs sold the property for $260,000, closing out 72 years in the family. The New York Times reported that plans were being drawn up to remodel the structure, and a 1918 ad offered a modernized, glass-fronted store through to Mercer Street.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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