Mills & Gibb Building
462 Broadway | also 28 Crosby Street, 24 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1900
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- 1828
A residence on the site becomes the Broadway House, known as Whig Headquarters
In 1828 an elegant residence went up on this spot on Broadway. It later became the Broadway House and for many years was known as the Whig Headquarters. The lot was afterward taken by a cast-iron building for Brooks Brothers, which was in turn demolished before the present structure rose in 1879-1880.
“An elegant residence was erected in 1828, which was afterward called the Broadway House, and known for many years as the Whig Headquarters.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1858
Brooks Brothers opens a four-story store at Broadway and Grand that outfits Civil War generals
A Brooks Brothers building once stood on this site. In 1858 the firm moved north to a large four-story store at Broadway and Grand Street, which became its main location during the Civil War, and Generals Grant, Hooker, Sherman and Sheridan were all outfitted there. Brooks also made frock coats for Lincoln, one of which he wore to Ford's Theatre in April 1865, before the firm moved to Union Square in 1869.
Source: encyclopedia.com
- 1879
John Correja designs a six-story cast-iron palace for George Bliss and J. Cossitt
The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the building as a massive French Renaissance cast-iron commercial palace, designed by John Correja for owners George Bliss and J. Cossitt in 1879-1880. Its six stories run to twelve bays on Broadway and twenty-four along Grand Street, with slender Corinthian columns on the upper floors. The ground floor has been completely altered.
“Its six stories are combined into a total of twelve bays on the Broadway side and 24 bays on the Grand Street side.”
- 1880
Lace and linen importer Mills & Gibb moves into the new building from White Street
Mills & Gibb, an importing and jobbing firm founded in 1865 by Philo L. Mills and John Gibb, relocated here in 1880 from 44 White Street. The building stood at Broadway's northeast corner with Grand Street. The company later bought a site at Fourth Avenue and 22nd Street and put up a 16-story building in 1910, now 300 Park Avenue South.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1984
Dorothy Cann Hamilton founds the French Culinary Institute and L'Ecole restaurant here
In 1984 Dorothy Cann Hamilton, a native New Yorker, opened the French Culinary Institute and the restaurant L'Ecole in the building, and both were quick successes. The faculty included Alain Sailhac of Le Cirque and Andre Soltner of Lutece. Graduates included David Chang of Momofuku, Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Wylie Dufresne of wd-50.
Source: sohobroadway.org
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