Gunther Building
473 Broome Street | also 475 Broome Street, 469 Broome Street | SoHo | built 1872
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- 1872
Griffith Thomas finishes the Gunther Building, a cast-iron store with a rounded, glass-curved corner
William H. Gunther, a partner in the furrier C. G. Gunther's Sons, commissioned a six-story iron store at Broome and Greene Streets, announced in the Real Estate Record in November 1871 and completed the next year. Griffith Thomas gave the corner a gentle curve, and the panes of rolled glass bent to follow it. The Aetna Iron Works cast the facade, whose upper floors step down in height like tiers of a wedding cake.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1894
A ribbon-buying couple vanish from Broadway owing silk merchants Hoeninghaus & Curtiss, and are caught in Troy
Moses Levy bought ribbons and other goods on sixty to ninety days' credit from Hoeninghaus & Curtiss, claiming to run his wife Julia's millinery shop at 594 Broadway. The goods were promptly resold for cash. When a collector from the Broome Street firm called on May 26, the shop had been emptied. Police traced the Levys to Troy, where they had already opened two millinery stores, and brought them back.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1940
Detectives say stolen rayon lined the boxes at the Strand Paper Box Company, and the owner and his sons are arrested
Isidor Engelsberg founded the Strand Paper Box Company in 1929, and it leased space here by 1940. That August a newspaper reported that a fabric firm's employee had been seen wheeling over 1,000 yards of rayon to Sidney Engelsberg at the service entrance. Detectives said they then found more than 4,000 yards of the cloth inside the box factory, where it was being used to line boxes. Isidor and his sons were charged with receiving stolen property.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1972
Artists open Landmark Gallery at 469 Broome Street as SoHo's factory lofts turn to art
In 1972 the painter Charles DuBack co-founded Landmark Gallery here with fellow artists Daphne Mumford, Tom Boutis, Nora Speyer, Jean Cohen and Sideo Fromboluti. It opened as SoHo's old silk and textile lofts were being turned into studios and galleries.
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- 1982
SOHO20, a women's artist cooperative founded in 1973, moves its gallery to 469 Broome Street
SOHO20 began in 1973 at 99 Spring Street, modeled on the all-women A.I.R. Gallery, and took its name from the address and a hoped-for twenty members. In 1982 it relocated here. Guest-curated shows in this building included New Visions in 1986-87, which featured Lorna Simpson among four artists without gallery representation, and a 1990 tribute curated by Faith Ringgold to murdered Mississippi civil rights workers.
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