456 Broome Street

SoHo | built 1867

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

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1866
May 11
Publishers Dick & Fitzgerald are listed at 456 Broome Street, in a building that predates the present one
When the New York Times ran a list of the publishers clustered along Broome Street on May 11, 1866, it placed Dick & Fitzgerald, described as publishers of light literature, at No. 456. The marble building standing there today dates from 1867, so the firm worked from an earlier building on the site. The block sat in a district then crowded with book and school-text publishers.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1867
Benjamin Warner designs a marble warehouse at 456 Broome Street for merchant Elliott Cowdin
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Building Department records show that 456 Broome Street went up in 1867 for Elliott Cowdin, to a design by Benjamin W. Warner. In 1879 Cowdin built a twin on the Mercer Street corner at No. 454, this time by Benjamin's older brother Samuel Warner, who repeated the same facade. Only a split in the cornice separates the two fronts, which now read as one six-story marble facade, and the interiors have since been joined.
“No. 456 was built in 1867 for Elliott Cowdin by B. N. Warner. The identical design was used by Samuel Warner in 1879 when he built No. 454 for Cowdin.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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