496 Broadway
SoHo | built 1866
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1866
Edward Gillilan builds a five-story store on the site of the 1851 Union Hotel
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The five-story, three-bay building at 496 Broadway was completed in 1866 for Edward Gillilan, with a stone front and iron cornices; its architect is unknown. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's inventory records that the Union Hotel stood on the site in 1851, and that the ground floor has since been altered.
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