477 Broome Street
SoHo | built 1873
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- 1873
Elisha Sniffen designs a double-fronted iron store at 477-479 Broome Street for Jacob Weeks
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Work on the six-story, eight-bay cast-iron store at 477-479 Broome Street began in June 1872, and it was completed in February 1873. Elisha Sniffen designed it for owner Jacob Weeks. Quoined pilasters at the ends and down the middle give it the look of two facades, each section topped by its own pediment. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes it as a classical composition with a very French feel.
- 1879
Cheney Brothers, the Connecticut silk makers, keep offices at 477-479 Broome Street in the district's textile boom
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By the district's late 19th-century boom as a center of the dry-goods and textile trade, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission dates from 1879, Cheney Brothers kept offices in this building. The silk manufacturers had started in 1838 in South Manchester, Connecticut, where they built a company town noted for its humanitarian planning.
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