453 Broome Street

also 57 Mercer Street | SoHo | built 1873

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

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1873
February 28
Griffith Thomas finishes a six-story iron store at 453-455 Broome Street for Julia Billings
Work began on July 1, 1872 and finished on February 28, 1873, with Martin E. Dujan as carpenter and John T. Conover as mason. Owner Julia Billings had Griffith Thomas design it as a store with an iron facade, six stories high, six bays wide on Broome Street and eleven on Mercer.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1873
Griffith Thomas gives 453-455 Broome quoined end pilasters and Corinthian columns
The landmark report calls the building a fine Griffith Thomas design: six stories plus a separate attic, with eleven bays on Mercer and six on Broome. Quoined pilasters mark the end bays and the corner, columns with Corinthian capitals separate the windows, and a boldly projecting cornice on elaborate brackets caps the fifth story. Ornamental iron urns once stood on the roofline but were removed and their bases covered over.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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