46 Greene Street

also 50 Greene Street, 50A Greene Street, 42 Greene Street | SoHo | built 1900

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

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1860
Ann Howard has a five-story brick store and warehouse built at 46-50 Greene Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates this building to 1860 and names Ann Howard as its original owner, with the architect unknown. It was a five-story, six-bay store and warehouse with a brick front and an iron storefront. After H. J. Howard built the stone building at 42-44 next door, the two shared a single ground-floor facade, and the buildings were later joined.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1860
Stone pediments over the windows give 46-50 Greene Street a near-baroque second floor
The commission describes the second floor as the building's most elaborate, with a small stone pediment resting on a bracket above each window. Similar window units in cast iron, rather than stone, appeared in Daniel Badger's catalogue of iron architecture five years later. The third and fourth floors have neo-Grec pediments of two volutes with an antefix at the peak, and the original cornice is missing.
“…small stone pediment that rests upon a bracket formation ... Similar window units executed in cast iron rather than stone, were published five years later in Daniel Badger's catalogue…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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