489 Broadway

also 444 Broome Street, 442 Broome Street | SoHo | built 1860

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

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1860
Louisa Hepburn has an Italianate building erected at Broadway and Broome Street
The five-story building was erected in 1860 for Louisa Hepburn, with the last three bays on Broome Street added in 1863. It is two bays wide on Broadway and twelve on Broome. The Broadway front and the corner bay are stone, and the rest is brick, a treatment the district report calls common when one front faces a more important street.
“No. 442-444 Broome (489 Broadway) was built for Louisa Hepburn in 1860, except for the last three bay sections on Broome Street built in 1863.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1929
The widening of Broome Street adds a concrete arch for basement access
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When Broome Street was widened in 1929, a concrete arch was added at ground level on the building's Broome Street side to provide access to the basement. The district report points to the arch as an interesting alteration to the 1860 building, whose ground floor had otherwise been completely altered.
“…a concrete arch at ground level added to provide access to the basement when Broome Street was widened in 1929…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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