446 Broadway

also 448 Broadway | SoHo | built 1877

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1877
May 25
The Lorillard Estate completes 446-448 Broadway in May 1877, five months after work began
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Work on the store at 446-448 Broadway began on December 21, 1876, and ended on May 25, 1877. The Lorillard Estate was the owner and J. B. Snook the architect. The six-bay iron facade was supplied by the foundry J. B. & J. W. Cornell, and it shares a single design with the narrower building next door at 450 Broadway.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1877
John B. Snook uses cast iron for a light, open facade with wide bays at 446-448 and 450 Broadway
The Landmarks Preservation Commission singles out 446-450 Broadway among Snook's works for treating iron in an untraditional way. The neo-Grec details are conventional, but the iron is used to make an airy front whose wide bays are separated only by columns. The commission considers that approach better suited to the nature of cast iron than his earlier iron fronts that imitated stone.
“…he used iron in a much more non-traditional manner at 446-450 Broadway (1876-77) ... a light, open building with wide bays separated only by columns.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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