600 Broadway

also 136 Crosby Street | SoHo | built 1884

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1884
January 31
Samuel A. Warner completes a six-story iron-fronted store at 600-602 Broadway for Elizabeth W. Aldrich
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Construction ran from March 14, 1883 to January 31, 1884 on the southeast corner of Broadway and East Houston Street. Samuel A. Warner was the architect, McGuire & Sloan the carpenters and John H. Masterton the mason. Owner Elizabeth W. Aldrich built it as a store with an iron facade, six stories tall and six bays wide, running through the block to Crosby Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1884
Architect Samuel A. Warner, who designed 600-602 Broadway, built many large dry-goods stores
Warner (1822-1897) began his training at sixteen in the office of his father, Cyrus L. Warner, and was partners with his brother Benjamin from 1862 to 1868. His New York Times obituary cited stores for H. B. Claflin and S. B. Chittenden & Co., among other dry-goods firms, and he also designed Marble Collegiate Church. The landmark report lists 600-602 Broadway among his works in the SoHo-Cast Iron district, dated 1883-84.
“Samuel A. Warner received his architectural training in the office of his father, Cyrus L. Warner, beginning at the age of sixteen.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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