636 Broadway
also 170 Crosby Street | NoHo | built 1896
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1896
George B. Post designs a store-and-loft building for Henry E. Coe Jr.
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George B. Post designed 636-638 Broadway for Henry E. Coe Jr., and it was completed in 1896 as the older five- and six-story lofts nearby were giving way to taller buildings. The Coe family kept it until the Depression years of the 1930s. Light manufacturers remained tenants into the mid-twentieth century.
“…designed by George B. Post and built in 1896 for Henry E. Coe, Jr.”
- 1905
Two reinforced-concrete stories are added and then used in a construction advertisement
In 1905 the architects Koehler & Farnsworth added two stories to the building, still owned by Coe. The Standard Concrete-Steel Company built the addition and used it in a 1907 advertisement for its System M method of reinforced concrete construction. The extra floors brought the building to twelve stories.
“…the addition was built by the Standard Concrete-Steel Company, which featured it in a 1907 advertisement for its System M…”
- 1946
A maker of women's undergarments buys the building, and his family later turns it into offices
Herman I. Zacharia, who manufactured and sold mainly women's undergarments, bought 636 Broadway in 1946 and expanded into real estate. In the 1980s his family moved the manufacturing business out of New York City, leaving large vacancies. His grandson Victor Trager then rented the space to other tenants, and the family still manages the building.
Source: noho.nyc
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