63 Spring Street

also 234 Lafayette Street, 236 Lafayette Street | SoHo | built 1897

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1. 1897

   Lafayette Street's widening forces a new facade and factory use at 63 Spring Street

   Architect Julius Kastner redesigned this former dwelling in 1897, while the city was widening Lafayette Street, and the building was converted from residence to manufacturing. The result is a five-story Renaissance Revival store and factory building, with terra-cotta spandrel panels and a bracketed metal cornice, whose upper floors later became residential.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1930

   63 Spring Street holds the United Cigar Co. in the 1920s and the Lafayette Smoke Shop from 1967

   Over the twentieth century this corner building held a succession of tenants. The United Cigar Co. was listed there from 1920 to 1930, the Dallek Office Equipment Co. in 1930, and the Lafayette Smoke Shop from 1967 to 1999. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites New York Times notices from 1930, 1967, 1992 and 1999 among its references.

   “United Cigar Co. (1920-30); the Dallek Office Equipment Co. (1930); and the Lafayette Smoke Shop (1967-1999)…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1965

   The upper floors of 63 Spring Street become artists' live/work lofts, and designer Ken Brown later lives there

   In the 1960s the upper floors were turned into artists' live/work space, part of SoHo's rise as an art center in the later twentieth century. The Landmarks Preservation Commission names the designer and illustrator Ken Brown as one of its later occupants. The upper stories are still residential today.

   “…upper floors were converted to artists’ live/work space in the 1960s, and the designer and illustrator Ken Brown was one its later occupants…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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