428 Broome Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1869. Designed by Isaac F. Duckworth, the building’s Broome Street facade, which is nearly identical to the adjacent building at 426 Broome Street that was built a year later and designed by a different architect, features Italianate style detailing such as Corinthian columns at the ground floor, segmental lintels on the three bays of windows, bracketed sills, molded labels, a bracketed roof cornice with scrolled modillions, frieze panels, and a broken rounded pediment and finial. The building has an L-shaped plan, and a secondary brick and stone facade on Crosby Street. This smaller facade is clad in red brick, with white stone quoins at the edges. The north bay has been bricked-in, but the other two have segmental-arched stone lintels. On the ground floor, the left bay is also bricked-in, the center bay contains the entrance, and the right bay is filled by glass blocks.

The building was occupied by a variety of manufacturers and merchants until 1981, when it was used by a real estate firm. The building has since been joined internally with 426 Broome, and converted to residential use.