631 Broadway

also 635 Broadway, 200 Mercer Street | NoHo | built 1940

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

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1854
Peter Goelet builds a row of marble-fronted stores that are now the district's oldest commercial buildings
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In 1853-54 Peter Goelet, of the family that helped found the Chemical Bank, put up four similar five-story stores and warehouses at 631 to 637 Broadway; No. 637 was later demolished. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the survivors the oldest buildings in the NoHo district that were built as commercial structures. They stayed in commercial use through most of the twentieth century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1985
Three Broadway lofts are joined with a neighboring Mercer Street building into an apartment courtyard complex
Around 1985 the buildings at 631, 633 and 635 Broadway were linked internally with the neighboring building at 200-204 Mercer Street. They became an apartment complex arranged around an interior courtyard, with its entrance on Mercer Street. The commission notes that the conversion may have cost the buildings their original decorative roof cornice and their wrought-iron fire escapes.
“…joined internally along with the neighboring building at 200-204 Mercer Street (also in the NoHo Historic District) and converted c. 1985 to an apartment complex centered on an interior courtyard…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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