457 Broome Street

also 459 Broome Street | SoHo | built 1871

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 Hurd & Houghton and F. J. Huntington & Son work from 459 Broome Street in an earlier building
A New York Times list of May 11, 1866, naming the book publishers then gathered along Broome Street, gave No. 459 as the address of both Hurd & Houghton and F. J. Huntington & Son. The present iron building at 457-459 was not finished until 1871, so the two firms occupied an earlier building on this lot. The surrounding area was filled with publishers at the time.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1871
Griffith Thomas completes a six-story iron warehouse at 457-459 Broome Street for William Moser
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Griffith Thomas designed this six-bay iron warehouse for William Moser, with Marc Eidlitz as the mason, and it was finished at the end of 1871. Work began on July 1 of that year, alongside the neighboring store at 461 Broome Street for the same owner. The Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that its original stained glass survived and that part of the cornice had been cut away for a fire escape.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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