632 Broadway

also 166 Crosby Street | NoHo | built 1900

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

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1900
Developer Henry Corn builds a 12-story loft building designed by Robert Maynicke
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Henry Corn, a real-estate developer, built 632-634 Broadway in 1899-1900 to designs by Robert Maynicke, at a cost of $375,000. It was one of the taller commercial buildings then replacing Broadway's earlier five- and six-story lofts. The building housed light manufacturing into the mid-twentieth century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1915
Henry Corn, whose company owned the Alwyn Court apartments, goes bankrupt and turns to the movies
Besides this building, Corn owned property on lower Fifth Avenue, 34th Street and near Washington Square. In 1906 he formed the Improved Property Holding Company, whose holdings included the Alwyn Court Apartments, at 58th Street and Seventh Avenue. Both the company and Corn went bankrupt in 1915, and afterward he worked in the movie business.
“The company and Mr. Com went bankrupt in 1915; thereafter, he worked in the movie business.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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