53 Crosby Street

SoHo | built 1890

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

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1890
W. H. Raystone has Horgan & Slattery build a six-story warehouse at 53 Crosby Street
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Horgan & Slattery designed the Queen Anne warehouse in 1889-90 for W. H. Raystone. Its brick piers, terra-cotta panels, round-arched sixth story and pressed-metal cornice with a central pediment mark the style. A glass manufacturer was an early tenant in 1890.
“…designed by architects Horgan & Slattery and was constructed in 1889-90 for W.H. Raystone…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1980
53 Crosby Street becomes cooperative apartments after decades of clothing, glass and plastics makers
Tenants over the years ranged from a milliner and typewriter maker in 1896 to T. H. Shakin & Co., a clothing manufacturer, in 1908, and the G. & G. Manufacturing Co., which made plastic sundries, in 1955. Retina Lighting occupied it in 1979 and the Foster Peet Gallery in 1993. The building was converted to cooperative apartments in 1980.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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