400 Broadway (New York City, New York)

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4-story Second Empire-style mercantile building completed in 1865. The stone exterior (now painted grey) is articulated by the superimposed tiers of intermediate cornices, coursed end piers, and column-framed flat-arched openings with curved corners, and by the paired brackets of the metal terminal cornice. The Walker Street facade is further distinguished at the center bay by its window surrounds with bracketed pediments, and at the cast-iron ground story by its large, pilaster-framed and flat-arched openings. The end bays have columns with Corinthian capitals. Additional surviving historic elements include a decorated iron fire escape and double-hung wood sash windows in a variety of configurations.

This structure was connected via a passageway to No. 402 in 1908. In 1912 the show windows on both facades were set back to the building line and a projecting front staircase was also replaced. The storefronts on Broadway and in the two westernmost bays on Walker Street were subsequently altered.

Among the building's occupants were J.M. Romme & Company, manufacturers and jobbers of hats, caps, furs, straw goods, and umbrellas; and the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company. The building has also been used for light manufacturing, storage, display, and sales. The most recent occupant is a textile firm.