Appleton Building
94 Grand Street | also 38 Greene Street, 90 Grand Street | SoHo | built 1867
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1867
Griffith Thomas designs a stone-fronted store and factory at Grand and Greene for the publisher D. Appleton & Company
Ann Howard, who had inherited extensive property in the neighborhood, commissioned Griffith Thomas in 1867 to design a five-story building on the corner of Grand and Greene Streets as the new home of D. Appleton & Company. It has a cast-iron shop base and an Italianate cornice with a triangular pediment, while its segmental-arched upper windows show the new French influence. Thomas's own obituary called much of his work commonplace.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1868
The publisher D. Appleton & Company moves in and sells histories, a Bible dictionary and campaign books from the corner
D. Appleton & Company occupied the new building in 1868, with around 100 full-time employees and a Brooklyn factory handling printing and binding. That year it issued a three-volume History of the World, priced from $3.50 to $5.00 depending on the binding, and ran newspaper ads seeking agents to sell a Democratic campaign book. The firm stayed only three years, and in March 1871 The New York Times counted this as its eighth move since the 1820s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1892
A salesman's son's thefts of woolens at Albegg & Rusch lead to his arrest and a buyer held for receiving stolen goods
In September 1892 partner Henry Albegg returned from Europe and found that expensive woolens delivered to Joseph Rothschilds of Church Street had never been entered in the books. Edwin K. Ross, the son of a commission salesman, wrote a letter admitting he had squandered the money at the races, and Rothschilds was held for receiving stolen goods. Albegg put the missing stock's value at perhaps $9,000, and Ross's father stopped coming to the store.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1868 Appleton & Co. Bldg -- Nos. 90-94 Grand StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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- 96 Grand Street1 entry
- 42 Greene Street2 entries
- 43 Mercer Street1 entry
- 100 Grand Street1 entry
- 45 Mercer Street1 entry
- 46 Greene Street2 entries