Devlin & Co. Building

459 Broadway | also 115 Grand Street | SoHo | built 1861

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1. 1861

   Devlin & Co., a men's clothier, opens a second Broadway store at 459 Broadway and Grand Street

   The Devlin brothers, Daniel and Jeremiah, moved their clothing business to Broadway at Warren Street in 1854, and the five-story store at 459 Broadway was completed in 1861. Devlin & Co. offered ready-made suits, garments cut to measure from piece goods, and furnishings such as shirts, collars and umbrellas. Later tenants included rubber-goods makers and dress-goods firms.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1861

   Thomas Suffein designs and erects a late Italianate stone building at Grand Street and Broadway

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   The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the building a late Italianate stone structure, designed by Thomas Suffein and put up in 1860-61. Its Grand Street side, numbered 115-119, also faces 459-461 Broadway, and each of the four upper floors has thirteen bays of round-arched windows framed by engaged columns with Composite capitals. Rusticated frames mark the end and center bays, and the ground-floor storefront has been completely altered.

   “…designed by Thomas Suffein and erected in 1860-61…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1866

   October 22

   A stone building going up next door collapses, frightening shoppers at the Devlin store

   On October 22, 1866, a four-story stone building under construction next door on Broadway fell down, causing a fright among workmen and a stir in the street outside the Devlin & Co. store. The corner building at Grand Street had been finished five years earlier.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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