Stonehill & Natt Building

684 Broadway | also 2 Great Jones Street | NoHo | built 1905

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1905
A twelve-story store and loft building rises at Broadway and Great Jones Street for Philip Braender
Architect Frederick C. Browne designed 684 Broadway, built in 1905 for Philip Braender. Its steel and concrete frame carries a rusticated limestone base, a brick middle section with terra-cotta detail, and a large, deep cornice decorated with lions and shields. It replaced the five- and six-story lofts that had lined this stretch of Broadway.
“…designed by Frederick C. Browne and constructed in 1905 for Philip Braender…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
684 Broadway uses an innovative concrete arch system for its floors
The 1905 building's floors use an innovative method of concrete arch construction, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Its owner Philip Braender seems to have been a relative of the head of the Braender Building and Construction Company, which held patents for a cellar drainer and a bilge syphon. A Braender also built 693-699 Broadway, across the street, in 1908.
“684 Broadway incorporates an innovative method of concrete arch floor construction.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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