63 Nassau Street

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

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1857
James Bogardus fronts the building with a cast-iron facade
Pioneering iron-front architect James Bogardus fitted the roughly 1844 masonry building with a new cast-iron Italianate facade of tall fluted columns and arcades. Bas-relief medallion portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin once decorated the second-floor column bases; the building is one of only five known surviving Bogardus structures in the country.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1864
A restaurant-saloon settles in for more than fifty years
Albert Bossert and Frederick Schmid opened a restaurant and saloon in the building that continued serving Nassau Street's jewelers and office workers until 1917, one of the ground floor's longest-running tenants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2007
May 15
The city landmarks the Bogardus survivor over owner objections
Despite protests from the building's owner, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 63 Nassau Street a New York City landmark, protecting one of the few remaining examples of James Bogardus's cast-iron architecture.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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