491 Broadway

also 446 Broome Street | SoHo | 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.

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1897
February 24
Buchman & Deisler complete a 12-story limestone store building for Jeremiah C. Lyons
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The twelve-story building at 491-493 Broadway was begun in April 1896 and finished in February 1897 to designs by Buchman & Deisler for Jeremiah C. Lyons, and was first used as a store. It is four bays wide. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's inventory notes that the site had earlier held the American Musical Fund Society in 1853.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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