652 Broadway

NoHo | built 1908

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

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1860
Mason finds the earlier building at 652 Broadway nearly without foundation, endangering its neighbor
When Hamilton Fish began extending his building at 650 Broadway in 1860, his mason discovered that the building next door at 652 had essentially no foundation. Both structures were in imminent danger of collapsing. At 650, the response was demolition and a new building.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1908
Frederick C. Browne designs a twelve-story store and lofts building for the corporation where he is vice-president
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Architect Frederick C. Browne was vice-president of the 652 Broadway Corporation, which built this neo-classical, steel-frame tower in 1906-08 to replace a mid-nineteenth-century stone building. By 1932 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company owned it. The upper floors were converted to residential use in the 1970s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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