90 Wooster Street

also 138 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1890

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

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1890
Cyrus Eidlitz builds a six-story store and loft building at Spring and Wooster for the Metropolitan Telephone Company
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Construction began on November 7, 1889, and the building at 140 Spring Street, also numbered 90 Wooster, was done by the end of 1890. Cyrus Eidlitz was the architect, Robert Darragh the mason and Bogart Brothers the carpenters. The Metropolitan Telephone Company was the original owner, and it was planned as a store with lofts. The corner building has six stories and nine bays grouped in three sets of three, with brick, stone, terra cotta and iron.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1916
Fire destroys the top three floors of 140 Spring Street at Wooster in 1916
A fire in 1916 burned off the top three floors of the corner building at Spring and Wooster, and a new front was built that same year to replace what was lost. The landmark district report notes that the present facade on Wooster dates from that rebuilding. The same entry adds that the building was damaged again in a later fire, without giving a date.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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