626 Broadway

also 158 Crosby Street, 622 Broadway | NoHo | built 1882

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
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. 1860

    Dion Boucicault plays Myles na Coppaleen in the premiere of The Colleen Bawn at Laura Keene's Theatre

    Laura Keene's Theatre, an earlier building on this site at 622 Broadway, staged the premiere of playwright Dion Boucicault's melodrama The Colleen Bawn in 1860. Boucicault played Myles na Coppaleen, with Keene as Anne Chute. The theatre also gave the first performances of the musical The Seven Sisters, a long-running show that played from 1860 into 1861.

    “In The Colleen Bawn, Keene played Anne Chute with Boucicault playing Myles na Coppaleen.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1863

    After Laura Keene leaves, her theatre becomes the Olympic, run by a succession of actress-managers

    When Keene left in 1863, her theatre was renamed the Olympic and managed by several actresses, among them Mrs. John Wood around 1866. Its stage later saw Augustin Daly's plays Horizon (1871) and L'Assommoir (1879) and a western, The Scouts of the Plains (1878), by Texas Jack Omohundro. This earlier building stood at 622 Broadway.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1881

    Keene's Variety Theater is reported burned in 1881, and Henry Fernbach's building at No. 626 takes its place

    The city's designation report says the popular playhouse that had stood here, which it calls Keene's Variety Theater, opened in 1856 and burned down in 1881. No. 626 Broadway replaced it: the north, four-bay section of Henry Fernbach's cast-iron store and loft building for Jacob Rothschild, separated from the south half by a firewall. By 1885 the hat manufacturer George H. Clark and Company occupied the building, and small manufacturers stayed on well into the twentieth century.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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