55 Great Jones Street

NoHo | built 1897

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

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1896
Architect Frederick B. Cole designs 55 Great Jones Street for Thomas Keogh
Frederick B. Cole was an architect who also worked as a builder. In 1891 he married Hannah Sophia Geggus, who became his partner on several development projects. In 1896 he designed the loft building at 55 Great Jones Street for developer Thomas Keogh, for whom he also designed a row of flats on 114th Street around 1897.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1979
55 Great Jones Street, long home to small garment and metal-goods firms, becomes an artists' cooperative
Through most of the twentieth century the loft building housed small businesses, mostly in garment-related trades and metal goods. A 1979 alteration converted it to joint live/work quarters for artists, with a certificate of occupancy issued in 1982, and Great Jones Studios Inc. took ownership in 1980. It has been a cooperative with a ground-floor store since the 1980s, and its upper floors have lost their cornice and ornament.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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