85 Grand Street

also 31 1/2 Greene Street, 75 Grand Street | SoHo | built 1915

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

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1872
June
William Hume starts a five-story cast-iron store at Grand and Greene Streets for James Fisher
Construction began in June 1872 on the building at 83-87 Grand Street, at the southwest corner of Greene Street. William Hume was the architect, Louis Scudder the builder, and James Fisher the owner. It was finished that October as a five-story store, with an iron facade supplied by Lindsay, Grafe & Meguier. An extension at No. 83 was added in 1883.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1872
The Grand Street front of 83-87 combines Corinthian columns, quoins and a pediment carved with the date 1872
The nine-bay Grand Street facade of this five-story building at 83-87 matches the one on the Greene Street side, in a modified neo-Grec style. Fluted Corinthian columns divide the ground-floor bays, and quoins outline the lower floors. At the roofline, a curved pediment over the central two bays of the original section frames the building's date, 1872.
“…enframing the building date 1872 over the central two bays of the original part of the building and brackets above the remaining columns…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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