380 Broadway (New York City, New York)

 condominiums, 1860s construction, Italianate style (architecture)

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1860 as a store-and-loft building. In 1880, a portion of the building, which was to the north of the present building, collapsed; a new north wall approximately thirty-one feet from the White Street facade was rebuilt.

The original design of the Broadway facade consisted of three bays of pedimented windows (one of which remains), alternating with bays of single, round-arched windows (two of which remain), for a total of seven bays. The primary facade of the building, on Broadway, is faced in white marble above the ground floor and has three bays of round-arched window openings per story. The central window openings at the 2nd-4th floors have distinctive pedimented window surrounds. The corner is decorated by quoins. The marble White Street facade, patched in some places, is divided into five sections by quoins. The end and center sections continue the design of the Broadway facade. The other two sections contain fewer windows with molded surrounds and keystones. Both facades are crowned by a bracketed marble cornice.

The ground floor retains its fluted cast-iron columns and sheet-metal cornice. On Broadway, new show windows project beyond the face of the columns, and an angled entrance has been added at the corner. On White Street, historic transoms, bulkheads, and show windows remain. The columns are placed on bases which progressively increase in height toward the east to accommodate the change in grade of the site.

The Cortlandt Alley elevation is faced in red brick above a raised white cast-iron base. The brick cornice and stone quoins and sills remain. Metal tie-rod plates appear above the ground floor. The windows have iron exterior shutters.

In the 1880s the structure was occupied by a dry goods business and an umbrella factory, and housed the Globe Wernicke Company from 1902-1917. The Library Bureau, manufacturers of office furniture and filing devices, were tenants in the 1920s. Later in the 20th century, tenants included a furniture store and a dance company. The building is now residential with a clothing store, Blues, on the ground level.