470 Broadway

SoHo | built 1858

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1. 1858

   The Pacific Bank builds a three-story home at 470 Broadway; architect Griffith Thomas later moves in

   The Pacific Bank, which opened at Broadway and Grand Street in 1850, put up a three-story brick building at 470 Broadway in 1858. The bank worked from the street level, while the upper floors went to tenants such as an insurance company and a real estate firm. Around 1862 the architect Griffith Thomas moved his office in. This was an earlier building on the site; demolition began in 1871.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1871

   June

   A wall falls during demolition of the old Pacific Bank building and a 19-year-old worker dies

   In June 1871 a side wall collapsed as workmen tore down the bank's earlier building on this lot to make way for a larger one. Several men were hurt, and 19-year-old Theodore Hoffner, who was badly injured, died afterward at Bellevue Hospital. A contractor offered to pay for his funeral. The replacement was a four-story marble-faced bank in the Renaissance Revival style.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1898

   December 27

   A fire at 470 Broadway sends factory workers across a rear bridge that collapses behind them

   A fire on December 27, 1898 threatened the Pacific Bank's marble-fronted building, which stood on this lot until later replaced. Eighteen employees of a tenant factory, P. Goldman's, got out over a rear bridge to 30 Crosby Street, and the bridge fell through a glass skylight two stories below soon after they crossed. Bank staff moved into a neighboring firm's offices and were doing business again within hours.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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