462 Broome Street

SoHo | built 1866

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

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1857
January
Baseball clubs hold the first National Association convention at Smith's Hotel, an earlier building here
Smith's Hotel, at 462 Broome Street, hosted the January 1857 convention of 16 New York-area baseball clubs, an earlier building on this site. A committee with one delegate per club had already been drafting rules for the game. The convention adopted its report at the final meeting on February 25, ending the era when each club set most of its own rules, and created what became the first body governing American baseball.
Source: Wikipedia
1866
Aaron Arnold completes a five-story stone store and loft building at 462 Broome Street
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Aaron Arnold, who also owned the large corner building at 464-468 Broome, completed this three-bay stone building in 1866 as stores and lofts. The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists its architect as unknown and notes that its iron storefront runs on from the one next door. The doors and windows had been replaced by the time of the commission's survey.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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