718 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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1850
Hope Chapel, a church of 1850, stands at 718 Broadway
The Landmarks Preservation Commission lists Hope Chapel, dated 1850, among the churches that followed St. Thomas's Episcopal into the neighborhood. Churches, schools and libraries arrived there at an increasing pace during the 1830s and 1840s, changing the scale and style of what had been a quiet residential area. The chapel was an earlier building at this address, long before the present commercial building.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
Josephine Macdonald has an eleven-story store-and-loft building raised at 718-720 Broadway
Charles E. Birge designed the building, and Ranald H. Macdonald & Co. built it in 1906-07 for Josephine Macdonald. The Real Estate Record and Guide praised the construction in November 1906. The projecting two-story show windows on the second and third floors were removed in 1940, and around 1980 the floors above the first were converted from manufacturing lofts to apartments.
“…constructed in 1906-07 by Ranald H. Macdonald & Co. for Josephine Macdonald…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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