525 Broadway

also 92 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1920

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

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1853
An earlier building on the site: the north wing of the St. Nicholas Hotel stretched to 527 Broadway
Before the current corner building, this stretch of Broadway was part of the St. Nicholas Hotel. Its north wing, covering 521 to 527 Broadway, was begun in 1853, and the entire hotel complex was in operation by March 1854. Only the part at 521-523 Broadway survives today.
“The southern wing (No. 507-511 Broadway) and the northern wing (No. 521-527 Broadway) were begun in 1853, and the whole complex was in use by March 1854.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1920
A bank built in 1920 stands out among the district's few later buildings
The 1920 bank at 525-527 Broadway, on the southwest corner of Spring Street, is one of the few buildings put up in the SoHo-Cast Iron district after 1910 that the landmarks commission found architecturally interesting. Many of the district's other post-1910 structures, the report says, are garages, lunch stands or gas stations.
“…with only a few exceptions such as the 1920 bank at 525-527 Broadway, these buildings are of little interest architecturally.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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