401 Broadway
60 Walker Street | also 62 Walker Street, 401 Broadway | Tribeca | built 1930
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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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- 1869
Importers John and David Duncan build a cast-iron store at 60 Walker Street, later home to a Cleveland notions firm
A six-story store and loft building at 60 Walker Street, designed by Benjamin W. Warner with a cast-iron facade, was erected in 1869 for the importers John and David Duncan. Later occupants included Roth & Glick, a notions and fancy-goods firm from Cleveland. Next door, 62 Walker housed importers and jobbers of silk and dry goods. The 1929 skyscraper replaced all of these, and this was an earlier building on the site.
- 1875
Citizens National Bank, founded on this site in 1851, has a six-story building put up at 401 Broadway
The Citizens National Bank, which had been founded in 1851 at this location, had a new six-story building erected at 401 Broadway in 1875. David and John Jardine gave it a cast-iron front in the Second Empire style. The bank was later acquired by the institution now known as Chemical Bank. Next door, 403 Broadway was a five-story store built for the prominent Goelet family, and the fancy-goods merchant Henry Rosenblatt was among its occupants. Both buildings were earlier structures on the site.
“No. 401 Broadway... erected in 1875 for the Citizens National Bank (founded in 1851 at that location…”
- 1929
A 26-story Art Deco loft, factory and office tower replaces four buildings at 401 Broadway
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Realty Construction Corporation built the steel-frame tower in 1929-30 to a design by Jardine, Hill & Murdock. At 26 stories it rises on a plot only about 54 feet wide on Broadway and over 153 feet deep along Walker Street. The city's report ties its scale to changes in the 1920s dry-goods trade, which called for large loft, factory and office buildings; textile firms and law offices occupied it by the time of designation.
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