48-52 Great Jones Street

48 Great Jones Street | NoHo | built 1897

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1897

    A. V. Porter finishes a 68-foot-wide seven-story loft building for developer Thomas W. Keogh

    In the late nineteenth century Thomas W. Keogh acquired a large share of Great Jones Street's north side and filled it with store-and-loft buildings. For 48-52 he hired architect A. V. Porter, who divided the 68-foot-wide Renaissance Revival front into three bays so that it resembled the narrow lofts around it. The building went up in 1896-97 with a limestone base, brick piers with Corinthian capitals and a galvanized-iron cornice.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1915

    The New York Fur Auction Sales Corporation leases 48-52 Great Jones Street

    NoHo was the center of New York's fur industry in the early twentieth century, and in 1915 the New York Fur Auction Sales Corporation took a lease on this building. The company stayed until about 1921. Five years later the Whitaker Paper Company, which sold business paper and newsprint, bought the building and stayed on as its main tenant.

    “In the early twentieth century the NoHo area was the center of the fur industry. In 1915, 48-52 Great Jones Street was leased to the New York Fur Auction Sales Corp.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1973

    Artists convert the former Whitaker Paper building to live/work lofts

    Whitaker Paper stayed as the main tenant until 1969, when the building was sold. A 1973 alteration made it a mix of commercial space and joint live/work quarters for artists, and a certificate of occupancy followed in 1977. By the 1970s galleries and artists were using it, and a tenants' corporation took ownership in 1975. Today it is a cooperative with shops on the ground floor.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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