70 Grand Street

also 29 Wooster Street, 64 Grand Street | SoHo | 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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1887
January 24
Morris S. Hermann's cast-iron store at 68-70 Grand Street is completed at the corner of Wooster Street
Construction of the building at 68-70 Grand Street, at the corner of Wooster Street, began on April 29, 1886, and ended on January 24, 1887. Morris S. Hermann was the owner and George DaCunha the architect. The five-story store has a six-bay cast-iron front on Grand Street, with iron supplied by the Lindsay & Grafe Ironworks, and its ground floor was later filled in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1887
George DaCunha, a builder as well as architect, designs the neo-Grec corner building at 68-70 Grand Street
George DaCunha also designed 72 and 74 Grand Street and 31 Greene Street, but the Landmarks Preservation Commission found 68-70 to be his only unique design in the district, since the other three nearly repeat one another. The report suggests that he leaned on stock cast-iron parts because he worked as a builder too; city dockets list him as builder of 89 Grand Street in 1877. The Wooster Street side has only two cast-iron bays, the rest being brick.
“Dacunha was a builder as well as an architect.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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