530 Broadway

also 532 Broadway, 87 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
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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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  1. 1853

    An earlier building on the site: the Collamore House hotel opens at Broadway and Spring Street

    The Collamore House opened in 1853 on the northeast corner of Broadway and Spring Street, a five-story stone-faced hotel. For nearly fifty years it housed travelers and a few well-known guests, among them songwriter Stephen Foster. Real estate operator Joseph L. Buttenwieser bought the property in November 1895 and later replaced the old hotel with an office building.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1897

    May 1

    Joseph Buttenwieser begins an 11-story steel-frame office tower at 530 Broadway

    Buttenwieser paid about $165,000 for the old hotel site in 1895 and waited a year and a half before starting work on May 1, 1897. Bronner & Tryon designed the 25-foot-wide tower, which runs 100 feet down Spring Street and has a steel skeleton behind its limestone and brick front. It was finished on February 27, 1898, and most tenants were in the apparel trade.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1897

    January 27

    Boehm & Coon finish Ralph Townsend's 10-story loft building at 532-534 Broadway

    The real estate and building firm of Boehm & Coon bought Nos. 532 and 534 Broadway in 1895 and replaced the four- and five-story brick buildings there with a ten-story loft and store building. Ralph S. Townsend was the architect. Construction ran from April 6, 1896 until January 27, 1897, a span of about nine months. The Renaissance Revival building stands on a three-story rusticated limestone base.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1903

    Jiru Sakabe's Kyoto Manufacturing and Trading Company takes the store space at 532-534 Broadway

    The Kyoto Manufacturing and Trading Company, founded in April 1903 by the Japanese businessman Jiru Sakabe, moved into the ground-floor store. Unlike most importers of Asian goods, it dealt in toilet brushes, buttons, poker chips, checkers, dice and dominoes rather than vases and fans. The firm stayed in the building into the World War I years.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1973

    The Film and Dance Theater opens at 530 Broadway

    In 1973 the Film and Dance Theater opened at 530 Broadway. By then the Broadway and Spring Street area was turning into a center of performing-arts studios and lofts, a change that continued through the last quarter of the twentieth century.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  6. 1988

    November

    P.P.O.W. Gallery and John Good Gallery move into 532-534 Broadway

    In November 1988 the contemporary-art P.P.O.W. Gallery took the third floor of 532-534 Broadway, while the John Good Gallery set up on the second floor at about that time. The galleries arrived as SoHo was being reborn, with galleries and trendy shops filling the district. The ground-floor store space had earlier housed the Georgina Restaurant, cited through the 1970s for Health Code violations, and then Dellek office furniture in 1981.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  7. 1990

    November

    Dolce & Gabbana opens its New York showroom at 532 Broadway

    In November 1990 the Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana inaugurated its New York showroom at 532 Broadway in SoHo. The designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had opened their first boutique in Tokyo in 1989 and added a men's collection in 1991, with their first fragrance following in 1992.

    Source: Wikipedia

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